Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least.
It is good to know what a man is, and also what the world takes him for. But you do not understand him until you have learnt how he understands himself.
Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe on instinct.
Of optimism I have said that 'The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.'
One said of suicide, 'As long as one has brains one should not blow them out.' And another answered, 'But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.'
The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
The force of the blow depends on the resistance. It is sometimes better not to struggle against temptation. Either fly or yield at once.
The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.
The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.
The propriety of some persons seems to consist in having improper thoughts about their neighbors.
The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.
There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
There are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth.
True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.
Up to a certain point every man is what he thinks he is.
Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.
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