The world exists not to be known, but to be educated in it.
Many believe that virtue consists in regretting mistakes rather than correcting them.
We live in a world where a fool produces more fools, so how many wise men does a learned one produce.
Knowing concretely that no one is completely happy is perhaps the shortest path to happiness.
Our abilities are developing more and more, and eventually it is possible that man will be able to accomplish anything without realizing that he is turning into a thinking animal. Rationality brings us closer to the animal state.
Weaknesses stop harming us the moment we are aware of them.
You don't have to go to bed before remembering what you learned during the day. What I understand by the word "learned" refers to trying to broaden your horizons of science with some useful knowledge.
Are we not making the same mistake by wheeling a murderer as the child who hits the chair he accidentally bumped into?
Do not form too sophisticated an impression of the man, but judge him simply; consider him neither too good nor too bad.
Isn't it strange that people so often fight for religion, but so rarely live up to its requirements?
An indisputable indication of a good book is that it becomes more interesting as one grows older.
Do not deviate even a day from the pursued goal - here is the way to extend the time, even a genuine way, but which is very difficult to use.
Nothing is so superficially judged as a person's character. Nowhere is the whole less valued than in this case, and it is precisely in this that the essence of a character consists.
Of what a man ought to be, even the best of men know nothing for sure; in relation to what exactly he is, one can judge according to each individual.
You must ask people for services according to your possibilities, and not according to your own wishes.
The search for small faults is the eternal characteristic of minds that either rise little above mediocrity or not at all. Great minds are silent or unresponsive to the whole, and truly great minds go about their business without judging anyone.
It is sad that people's intention to lessen evil produces even more evil.
The common feeling of shame is always a sincere feeling. You feel it when a very popular man, not knowing who he wants to pose for, becomes ridiculous.
The first step of wisdom is to attack everything, the second - to bear everything.
Pretending to be more learned than necessary is one of the signs of stupidity.
Bad people win when you know them better and good people lose.
To turn a fool into a wise man is as difficult as turning lead into gold.
Before you judge someone, you must see if it is not possible to find a justification for them.
If there are no other means, you cannot better understand a man's character by testing him with the joke that upsets him the most.
Do not be too upset if someone has accused you unfairly, because sometimes you are praised for no reason.
He who tries to do everything at once, does nothing.
Servant gestures are not always made by slaves.
The modest is harder for me to tolerate than the boastful. The boastful man recognizes the qualities of the one to whom he boasts, but the modest man despises the one to whom he demonstrates his modesty.
Hiding your shortcomings doesn't mean you'll become better; our authority only increases when we recognize our shortcomings.
Doubt must mean only vigilance, otherwise it becomes dangerous.