Most people grow old within a small circle of ideas, which they have not discovered for themselves. There are perhaps less wrong-minded people than thoughtless.
The usual pretext of those who make others unhappy is that they do it for their own good.
One promises much, to avoid giving little.
Servitude degrades people to such a point that they come to like it.
The young suffer less from their own errors than from the cautiousness of the old.
Our errors and our controversies, in the sphere of morality, arise sometimes from looking on men as though they could be altogether bad, or altogether good.