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Your gentleness shall force more than your force move us to gentleness.
The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues the better we like him.
Great truths do not take hold of the hearts of the masses.
To a mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.
It is proof of great talents to recall the mind from the senses, and to separate thought from habit.
Every man’s nature is concealed with many folds of disguise, and covered with various veils. His brows, his eyes, and very often his countenance, are deceitful, and his speech is most commonly a lie.
He employs his emotion who can make no use of his reason.
Careful attention to one thing often proves superior to genius.
Our minds possess by nature an insatiable desire to know the truth.
We receive but what we give.
The contemplation of celestial things will make a man both speak and think more sublimely and magnificently when he descends to human affairs.
I must be myself. I cannot break myself any longer for you, or you. If you can love me for what I am, we shall be the happier. If you cannot… I will not hurt you and myself by hypocritical attentions. If you are true, but not in the same truth with me, cleave to your own companions; I will seek my own. I do this not selfishly but humbly and truly. It is alike your interest, and mine, and all men’s, however long we have dwelt in lies, to live in truth. Does this sound harsh today? You will soon love what is dictated by your nature as well as mine, and if we follow the truth it will bring us out safe at last.
Nothing need be changed but your hearts.
All we have to do is to receive what we are given.
Does a philosopher seek people to come and hear him? Does he not, rather, by his own nature, attract those who will be enriched by him? He is like the warming sun. What physician seeks for men to come and be healed?
Let not that which in another is contrary to nature be an evil to you, for you are not made by nature to be depressed with others, nor to be unhappy with others, but to be happy with them.
Wisdom consists in performing only useful actions.
Our reason is so weak that a trifle is enough to trouble and intoxicate it.
Cease striving; then there will be self-transformation.
That which we acquire with the most difficulty we retain the longest; as those who have earned a fortune are usually more careful of it than those who have inherited one.
