Even in the midst of compassion we feel within I know not what tart sweet titillation of malicious pleasure in seeing others suffer; children have the same feeling.
To philosophize is to learn to die.
Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.
I never met a man who thought his thinking was faulty.
Every day I hear stupid people say things that are not stupid.
Lay a beam between these two towers of such width as we need to walk on: there is no philosophical wisdom of such great firmness that it can give us courage to walk on it as we should if it were on the ground.