We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.
We need to interpret interpretations more than to interpret things.
A man must keep a little back shop where he can be himself without reserve. In solitude alone can he know true freedom.
We are more unhappy to see people ahead of us than happy to see people behind us.
A man must learn to endure patiently what he cannot avoid conveniently.
There is no more expensive thing than a free gift.
On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.
No pleasure is fully delightful without communications, and no delight absolute except imparted.
No doctor takes pleasure in the health even of his friends.
If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
Life itself is neither a good nor an evil: life is where good or evil find a place, depending on how you make it for them.
The good opinion of the vulgar is injurious.
Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
People of our time are so formed for agitation and ostentation that goodness, moderation, equability, constancy, and such quiet and obscure qualities are no longer felt.
The lack of wealth is easily repaired but the poverty of the soul is irreplaceable.
In nine lifetimes, you'll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
A man is not hurt so much by what happens, as by his opinion of what happens.
My art and profession is to live.
In my opinion, every rich man is a miser.
Death pays all debts.
Happiness involves working toward meaningful goals.
There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
We are all of us richer than we think we are; but we are taught to borrow and to beg, and brought up more to make use of what is another's than of our own.
Men are tormented by the opinions they have of things, and not the things themselves.
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