Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a general natural law
You can best serve civilization by being against what usually passes for it.
Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.
The more skilled you are at something, the worse you are at it when showing someone.
A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.
There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're talking about.
A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.
We never see ourselves as others see us.
Let no man pull you low enough to hate him.
To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them.
If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.
Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.
It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
Act enthusiastic and you will be enthusiastic
It was a melancholy secret that reality can arouse desires but never satisfy them.
Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.
Criticize the act, not the person.
The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.