Man avoids, endures, or loves solitude according to the value he places on his Ego.
To one who is intellectually high, solitude brings a double benefit: first, he can be with himself, and second, he can not be with others. This last benefit you will greatly appreciate when you realize how much coercion, how many burdens and what danger each acquaintance brings with it.
Human life can, in fact, be called neither long nor short, because, in essence, it is the very measure by which we measure all other terms.
Honor is an outward conscience, and conscience is an inward honor.
"Through death sin entered the world," says Christian doctrine. But death is only an exaggerated, dramatic, ostentatious expression of what the world itself is. Therefore, it would be more correct to say: the world is a continuous sin.
To read is to think with someone else's head instead of your own.
To live among men and women, we must allow each man to be himself. If we absolutely condemn someone, then he will have no choice but to treat us as mortal enemies: because we are ready to give him the right to exist only on condition that he ceases to be himself.
Egoism, armed with intelligence, tries to escape from the evil consequences that flow from it and that are directed against itself.
Empirical sciences, when practiced only for themselves, without any philosophical aim, are like a face without eyes.
I don't think a genius could have a big mouth: that trait has too much to do with that of an animal. Furthermore, I believe that the forehead and eyes express intelligence and the mouth expresses will.
The problem with those who write quickly is that they cannot write concisely.
There is nothing more precious in life than your own experience.
There are two things that never wait: time and influx.
Long tongues...cause strife between neighbors and between peoples.
The consequences of crimes have a more lasting effect than the crimes themselves.
If people do not learn to help each other, humanity will disappear from the earth.
Of all the vices, drunkenness is the most incompatible with spiritual greatness.
The less you talk, the faster you will finish working.
We will never learn to respect and feel our true purpose if we rely on anything but the heart.
Don't listen! You risk hearing bad words even about yourself.
It's amazing how much good our bravery and willpower do to believe we're doing our duty.
A mistake may bring temporary success, but it will not bring true happiness.
Only evil people fear evil.
They are talkers who do not know how to think.
A life well lived should be measured in deeds, not years.
When an old bachelor marries a young woman, he deserves her alone... What can we say! The crime itself already contains the punishment.
He who seeks honors in life, he stands like a pathetic mourner at the gates of her temple, and without stirring, seeks to catch in the wretched breath of every passer-by a word of praise.
The people dependent on the will of one man cannot survive, they do not even deserve to.
Victory over self is the only victory in which luck does not participate.
The strongest passion is vanity. Save me from this passion, and I will rid myself of the rest.