Young people are always in a state similar to being drunk.
Someone who tries to be friends with everyone ends up being friends with no one.
Young people are easily tricked because they are quick to hope.
Men cling to life even at the cost of enduring great misfortune.
There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.
Man is a goal-seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.
Those whose days are consumed in the low pursuits of avarice, or the gaudy frivolties of fashion, unobservant of nature's lovelinessof demarcation, nor on which side thereof an intermediate form should lie.
As the pleasures of the body are the ones which we most often meet with, and as all men are capable of these, these have usurped the family title; and some men think these are the only pleasures that exist, because they are the only ones which they know.
Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.
Those who merely possess the goods of fortune may be haughty and insolent; . . . they try to imitate the great-souled man without being really like him, and only copy him in what they can, reproducing his contempt for others but not his virtuous conduct. For the great-souled man is justified in despising other people - his estimates are correct; but most proud men have no good ground for their pride.
