Dignity increases more easily than it begins.

You can only acquire it successfully if you cease to feel any sense of shame.

Who is everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.

If wisdom were offered me with the proviso that I should keep it shut up and refrain from declaring it, I should refuse. There's no delight in owning anything unshared.

A man who has taken your time recognises no debt; yet it is the one he can never repay.

I have withdrawn not only from men, but from affairs, especially my own affairs; I am working for later generations, writing down some ideas that may be of assistance to them.

Adversity finds at last the man whom she has often passed by.