Dare to fail. If you never fail, you're never taken risks and that's no way to take on this life.
We should wish for few things with eagerness, if we perfectly knew the nature of that which was the object of our desire.
Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
A man often imagines that he acts, when he is acted upon.
If we took as much pains to be what we ought, as we do to deceive others by disguising what we are; we might appear as we are, without being at the trouble of any disguise.
To be a great man it is necessary to know how to profit by the whole of our good fortune.
Jealousy is in some measure just and reasonable, since it merely aims at keeping something that belongs to us or we think belongsto us, whereas envy is a frenzy that cannot bear anything that belongs to others.
If you're a serious actor, it's when you know you're going to die tomorrow that you really start to feel it.
Suffering, it turns out, demands profound imagination. A new future has to be conjured up because the old future isn't there anymore.
Before information age, living standards basically were flat. Since then, they've been growing 2 percent a year were about 30 times richer. So technology, machines is really, you know, arguably the most important thing that's happened to humanity in terms of our living standards. You could look to the introduction of digital computers in the 1950s.
Pleasant is the recollection of dangers past.