Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.
There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.
We all have strength enough to endure the misfortunes of others.
If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.