One is never deceived, but rather deceives oneself.
Nothing is more terrible than ignorance in action.
Nothing is more highly to be prized than the value of each day.
Nothing is more frightful than imagination without taste.
No one would talk much in society, if he knew how often he misunderstands others.
No one is more a slave than the man who thinks himself free while he is not.
Nature! We are surrounded by her and locked in her clasp: powerless to leave her, and powerless to come closer to her. Unasked and unwarned she takes us up into the whirl of her dance, and hurries on with us till we are weary and fall from her arms.
Nature goes steadily her own way, and what to us appears the exception, is really done according to the rule.
Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than even malice and wickedness.
Man would not be the finest creature in the world if he were not too fine for it.
Love of truth shows itself in this, that a man knows how to find and value the good in everything.
Live dangerously and you live right.