Shame can be appropriate at any time, but not when it comes to admitting one's own mistakes.
The superstitions we grew up with stay with us even after we come to know them.
To consider ourselves more or less happy than we really are is a typical error of youth.
What was once published becomes the eternal heritage of mankind.
Better to tolerate an injustice than to commit it.
Good and very good things become boring if repeated every day.
Painters paint with the eyes of love and must also be judged with the eyes of love.
Man is still closer to another man than to an angel.
The more beautiful she is, the more honest a woman must be, because only by honor can she oppose the harm that her beauty can do.
I have long considered that the palace is not the right place for a poet who has to study nature. But if luxury and etiquette turn men into machines, then it is the duty of the poet to make men out of these machines.
A poison that does not have an instant effect does not become less dangerous.
I thank God for making me an atheist.
Rapid accumulation of knowledge without personal participation in the process of its accumulation is not effective. And erudition can produce only leaves and no fruit.
The word "erudite" sometimes only carries the idea that someone has been highly educated, but not that he has learned anything.
The supreme happiness, for which I pray to heaven every day, is to be surpassed in knowledge only by wise and virtuous men.
If you see yourself through someone else's eyes, you not only end up loving yourself, but also end up hating yourself.
Education is a kind of birth.
Ten sentences that affected the reason are easier to bear than one sentence that affected the heart.
The grave is the most solid fortress that can protect us from the blows of destiny.
The universal source of our happiness is the belief that the things around us are as we think they are.
Living against your will is a terrible thing, but even more terrible would be to become immortal without wanting it.
A mediocre man always adapts to the prevailing opinion and the prevailing fashion, and considers the present state of affairs the only possible one, and relates passively to everything.
True freedom is best characterized by abuses of freedom.
Each of us has our own way of making mistakes, mostly because mistakes are often the result of misunderstanding.
The book is a mirror. If a monkey looks into it, the reflection cannot be of a man.
Do people blush in the dark? I'm pretty sure they do it when they get scared, but at first I doubt it. Because they blush only for themselves, but they blush for themselves as well as for others.
He who has less than he wants must know that he has more than he deserves.
He who understands nothing but chemistry does not understand chemistry well enough.
As is the master, so is the servant.
The man who never has time generally does nothing.