self-awareness Quotes

If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.

The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.

Continuous eloquence wearies. Grandeur must be abandoned to be appreciated. Continuity in everything is unpleasant. Cold is agreeable, that we may get warm.

Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion.

Little things console us because little things afflict us.

Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them.

We view things not only from different sides, but with different eyes; we have no wish to find them alike.

Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.

Nothing is as approved as mediocrity, the majority has established it and it fixes its fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way.

The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.