Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.

We are more solicitous that men speak of us, than how they speak.

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.

It is fear that I stand most in fear of, in sharpness it exceeds every other feeling.

It is not my deeds that I write down, it is myself, my essence.

I consider it equal injustice to set our heart against natural pleasures and to set our heart too much on them. We should neither pursue them, nor flee them; we should accept them.

In true friendship, in which I am expert, I give myself to my friend more than I draw him to me. I not only like doing him good better than having him do me good, but also would rather have him do good to himself than to me; he does me most good when he does himself good.