We pay for these things too much in honour and in innocent lives.

We will gradually become indifferent to what goes on in the minds of other people when we acquire a knowledge of the superficial nature of their thoughts, the narrowness of their views and of the number of their errors. Whoever attaches a lot of value to the opinions of others pays them too much honor.

Some people care too much. I think it's called love.

In general people put too much faith in the rich, the famous, the politicians, and not enough faith in themselves.

When we have to change an opinion about any one, we charge heavily to his account the inconvenience he thereby causes us.

Hence a rather excessive politeness, such as the man who sets much store on breeding exhibits to those who may at any moment, even in a fraction of a syllable, prove themselves his inferiors.

A man is honorable in proportion to the personal risks he takes for his opinion.

Hasty opinion too often points the wrong way, and then affection for one's own opinion binds up the intellect.

It's so graceless, being a martyr. It's honoring your adversaries too much.

What Jaffe proved was that the powerful have to worry about how others think of them-that those who give orders are acutely vulnerable to the opinions of those whom they are ordering about.

Quand l'abſurde eſt outré, on lui fait trop d'honneur

De vouloir par raiſon, combattre ſon erreur:

Enchérir eſt plus court, ſans s'échauffer la bile.

People regard art too highly, and history not enough

If any one giveth thee excessive Praises more than can handsomely belong to thee, thou art to think of him, that he taketh thee for vain and credulous, and easy to be deceived, and effectually a Fool.

One pays dearly for any kind of mastery on earth, where perhaps one pays too dearly for everything; one is master of one's trade at the price of also being its victim.