Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches.
There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.
If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.
His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.
An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.
I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.