The man who thinks he knows does not yet know what knowing is

Pleasure itself is painful at the bottom.

Silence and modesty are very valuable qualities in conversation.

Every one is well or ill at ease, according as he finds himself! not he whom the world believes, but he who believes himself to be so, is content; and in him alone belief gives itself being and reality

I neither complain of the past, nor do I fear the future.

If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than it was because he was he, and I was I.

If you have known how to compose your life, you have done a great deal more than the person who knows how to compose a book. You have done more than the one who has taken cities and empires.