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The soul of man does violence to itself, first of all.
Be like the promontory against which the waves continually break, but which stands firm and tames the fury of the water around it.
It is in your power to be free from all compulsions, and to remain in the greatest tranquillity of mind, even if all the world cries out against you as much as it chooses.
He who is one with himself, is everything.
I love all men. I know that at bottom they cannot be otherwise, and under all the false and overloaded and glittering masquerade, there is, in every man, a noble nature beneath; only they cannot bring it out, and whatever they do that is false and cunning and evil, there still remains the sentence of our Great Example: “Forgive them, for they know not what they do.”
It lies in our own power to attune the mind to cheerfulness.
“What people will say.” In these words there lies the tyranny of the world, the whole destruction of our natural disposition, the uneven vision of our minds. These four words bear sway everywhere.
To understand things we must have been once in them and then have come out of them; so that first there must be captivity and then deliverance, illusion followed by disillusion, enthusiasm by disappointment. He who is still under the spell, and he who has never felt the spell, are equally incompetent. We only know well what we have first believed, then judged. To understand we must be free, yet not have been always free.
No man loves the man whom he fears.
To be happy means to be self-sufficient.
The answer to the last appeal of what is right lies within a man’s own heart. Trust yourself.
It was through the feeling of wonder that men now and at first began to philosophize.
Whatever you do, act always in full presence of mind. Be thoughtful in eating and drinking, in walking or standing, in sleeping or waking, while talking or being silent.
Better than worshipping gods is obedience to the laws of righteousness.
Higher, deeper, innermost, abides another life.
All creatures live bewildered, save some few.
He who would be master of himself shall win it, if he bravely strives.
If a foolish man is associated with a wise man, even all his life, the foolish man will understand truth as little as a spoon understands the taste of soup.
In a village or in a forest, on land or sea, wherever venerable persons dwell, that place is delightful.
No heart that holds one right desire treads the road of loss.
