How few friends would remain friends if each could see the sentiments of the other in their entirety.

The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism.

One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them.

Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.

There exists a species of transcendental ventriloquism by means of which men can be made to believe that something said on earth comes from Heaven.

Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under other circumstances we would call stupidity.

If there were only turnips and potatoes in the world, someone would complain that plants grow the wrong way.

Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads.

To read means to borrow; to create out of one s readings is paying off one's debts.

Once we know our weaknesses they cease to do us any harm.

He who understands the wise is wise already.

The treacherous are ever distrustful.

You know as far as diet goes, for a while I was really obsessed with counting fat grams along with the rest of the world.

To watch a movie in 3D when it's not really planned in 3D is disturbing sometimes.

I did no know everything there was to know about myself, and knew that I did not know it.

Intention, good or bad, is not enough.

Truth is eternal. Knowledge is changeable. It is disastrous to confuse them.

I'm sure nobody wants to just work and earn money and all that stuff. I know it's difficult for people to break out of the syndrome, doing a normal job.

It was only a few years ago that I couldn't get hired to save my life.

I thought you were supposed to be pretending I don’t exist, not irritating me to death.

I'm just a man, no more or no less. Bad as the worst, good as the best.