What kind of truth is this which is true on one side of a mountain and false on the other?

If not for that of conscience, yet at least for ambition's sake, let us reject ambition, let us disdain that thirst of honor and renown, so low and mendicant; that it makes us beg it of all sorts of people.

I leaf through books, I do not study them. What I retain of them is something I no longer recognize as anyone else's.

My business is only to keep myself in motion, whilst motion pleases me; I only walk for the walk's sake.

He who lives not to others, lives little to himself.

Natural inclinations are assisted and reinforced by education, but they are hardly ever altered or overcome.

Shame on all eloquence which leaves us with a taste for itself and not for its substance.