Rules are important, but they're temporary and they're always supposed to be changed.
There is little advantage in pleasing ourselves when we please no one else, for our great self-love is often chastised by the scorn of others.
It is a singular characteristic of love that we cannot hide it where it exists, or pretend it where it does not exist.
To be too dissatisfied with ourselves is a weakness. To be too satisfied with ourselves is a stupidity.
There are people so blind and self-absorbed in all matters that they always believe that, whatever they desire or think, they can impose their will on other people. Whatever bad reason they use to persuade others, these self-centered people are so caught up in the process that it seems to them all they have to do is to speak their wishes in a lofty and commanding tone of voice in order to convince everybody.
There is a certain hidden mediocrity in those who are stationed above us in life, an ability to take liberties in their pursuit of pleasures and diversions, without injuring the honor and respect we owe to them.
There is as much wisdom in soliciting good counsel as in giving it. The most sensible people are not reluctant to consider the feelings of other people; and to know how to submit to the wise guidance of others is a kind of wisdom in itself.
It is said Somerset Maugham traveled the world with a notebook to learn the essence of life and Kafka sat in a room for the same objective. Yet Kafka came out with a better world-view.
In today's society we sometimes forget to balance our hearts and our heads; this is the reason we stop laughing.
A bath and a tenderloin steak. Those are the high points of a man's life.
Don't we all know why nerds do what they do? To get money, which leads to popularity, which leads to girls.