Philosophers call God the great unknown The great misknown is more like it!
Great souls are harmonious.
Friendship is the ideal; friends are the reality; reality always remains far apart from the ideal.
Education, properly understood, is that which teaches discernment.
Since unhappiness excites interest, many, in order to render themselves interesting, feign unhappiness.
The philosopher spends in becoming a man the time which the ambitious man spends in becoming a personage.