We should conduct ourselves not as if we ought to live for the body, but as if we could not live without it.

The condition of all who are preoccupied is wretched, but most wretched is the condition of those who labor at preoccupations that are not even their own, who regulate their sleep by that of another, their walk by the pace of another, who are under orders in case of the freest things in the world-loving and hating. If these wish to know how short their life is, let them reflect how small a part of it is their own.

Let wickedness escape as it may at the bar, it never fails of doing justice upon itself; for every guilty person is his own hangman.

It’s in the very trickery that it pleases me. But show me how the trick is done, and I have lost my interest therein.

Human society is like an arch, kept from falling by the mutual pressure of its parts

The evil which assails us is not in the localities we inhabit but in ourselves.

His head was turned by too great success.