A bore is a man who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.
No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.
They always talk who never think.
He who praises you for what you lack wishes to take from you what you have.
None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.
We are generally the better persuaded by the reasons we discover ourselves than by those given to us by others.
That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false.
The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.