I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others.
Marcus Aurelius

Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as often as it is practicable; and to make this custom the more significant, practice it first upon yourself.
Marcus Aurelius

Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.
Marcus Aurelius

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Marcus Aurelius

What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
T. S. Eliot

To survive it is often necessary to fight and to fight you have to dirty yourself.
George Orwell

War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.
George Orwell

Men often take their imagination for their heart; and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted.
Blaise Pascal

I have often thought that if a rational Fascist dictatorship were to exist, then it would choose the American system.
Noam Chomsky

Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Stupidity often saves a man from going mad.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.
Lord Byron

A smile abroad is often a scowl at home.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

Mastery passes often for egotism.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Men are often capable of greater things than they perform - They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.
Horace Walpole

We often repent of our first thoughts, and scarce ever of our second.
Horace Walpole