“There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.”

Stanza 124
Locksley Hall Sixty Years After (1886)

Touchstone, Act V, scene i
Source: As You Like It (1599–1600)

Touchstone, Act V, scene i
Misattributed

Niebla [Mist] (1914)
Context: Whenever a man talks he lies, and so far as he talks to himself — that is to say, so far as he thinks, knowing that he thinks — he lies to himself. The only truth in human life is that which is physiological. Speech — this thing that they call a social product — was made for lying.

Sentences, The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave
Source: Meditations

Maxim 584
Sentences, The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave

Tanto è miser l'uom quant' ei si riputa.
Ecloga Octava; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), "Mind".

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