Contact with the world either breaks or hardens the heart.
In living and in seeing other men, the heart must break or become as bronze.
Many men and women enjoy popular esteem, not because they are known, but because they are not known.
Nearly all men are slaves for the same reason that the Spartans assigned for the servitude of the Persians -- lack of power to pronounce the syllable, "No." To be able to utter that word and live alone, are the only means to preserve one's freedom and one's character.
Society is divided into two classes, the shearers and the shorn.
His passions make man live, his wisdom merely makes him last.