All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.
A pessimist is an optimist in full possession of the facts.
The majority of men... are not capable of thinking, but only of believing, and... are not accessible to reason, but only to authority.
A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.
Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.
Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.
Rudeness is better than any argument; it totally eclipses intellect.
Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.
We seldom think of what we have but always of what we lack. Therefore, rather than grateful, we are bitter.
Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.
A high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial.
You are free to do what you want, but you are not free to want what you want.
Man is never happy, but spends his whole life in striving after something which he thinks will make him so.
What people commonly call fate is mostly their own stupidity.
To overcome difficulties is to experience the full delight of existence.
Education perverts the mind since we are directly opposing the natural development of our mind by obtaining ideas first and observations last. This is why so few men of learning have such sound common sense as is quite common among the illiterate.
Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.
The safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy.
The shortness of life, so often lamented, may be the best thing about it.
A man of genius can hardly be sociable, for what dialogues could indeed be so intelligent and entertaining as his own monologues?
Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.
Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
When you look back on your life, it looks as though it were a plot, but when you are into it, it's a mess: just one surprise after another. Then, later, you see it was perfect.
The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.
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