Philosopher

The Soul is the voice of the body's interests.

To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say.

Philosophers are very severe towards other philosophers because they expect too much.

Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit.

It is always pleasant to be urged to do something on the ground that one can do it well.

Nafsu yang dicangkokkan pada kesombongan yang terluka adalah yang paling lazim; mereka berwarna hijau dan kuat di usia tua.

The diseases which destroy a man are no less natural than the instincts which preserve him.

To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.

To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood.

By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all.

Semua bahasa bersifat retoris, dan bahkan rasa adalah syair.

When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different.

To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.

Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.

Ketakutan yang pertama kali menciptakan para dewa mungkin sama benarnya dengan apa pun yang begitu singkat tentang subjek yang begitu besar.

We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past; and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible.

The primary use of conversation is to satisfy the impulse to talk.

The philosophy of the common man is an old wife that gives him no pleasure, yet he cannot live without her, and resents any aspersions that strangers may cast on her character.

Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy.

Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to events or objects in the world.