There is an applause superior to that of the multitudes: one's own.
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.
The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.
It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.
The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.
Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.