There are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth.
The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.
The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.
The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.
