There Are Some Centuries Which

That Is Why All Great Men Are Modest: They Consistently Measure Themselves Not In Comparison To Other People But To The Idea Of Perfection Ever Present In Their Minds, An Ideal Infinitely Clearer And Greater Than Any Common People Have, And They Also Realize How Far They Are From Fulfilling Their Ideal.

Children Find Everything In Nothing; Men Find Nothing In Everything.

If The Best Company Is That Which We Leave Feeling Most Satisfied With Ourselves, It Follows That It Is The Company We Leave Most Bored.

Real Misanthropes Are Not Found In Solitude, But In The World; Since It Is Experience Of Life, And Not Philosophy, Which Produces Real Hatred Of Mankind.

It's Not Our Disadvantages Or Shortcomings That Are Ridiculous, But Rather The Studious Way We Try To Hide Them, And Our Desire To Act As If They Did Not Exist.