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If a man empties himself of himself, who can harm him?
Mental pleasures never clog; unlike those of the body, they are increased by repetition, approved of by reflection, and strengthened by enjoyment.
Those who have resources within themselves, who can dare to live alone, want friends the least, but, at the same time, best know how to prize them the most. But no company is far preferable to bad, because we are more apt to catch the vices of others than their virtues.
Man, if you are anything at all, strive to walk alone and hold communion with yourself, instead of hiding in the chorus of men. Think, look around, arouse yourself, so that you will know who you are!
How are we constituted by Nature? To be free, to be noble, to be modest.
Reason shall prevail with me more than popular opinion.
What man in his senses abandons that which is good, to keep company with evil.
Wise men read very sharply all of your private history in your look and gait and behavior.
Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other.
Be dissatisfied with the life you are now leading, but when you have rejected it, do not be in despair over yourself… Learn what the wrestling teachers do. Has the boy fallen? “Rise,” they say, “and wrestle again until your strength is renewed.” That is how it should be with you. Realize that there is nothing more flexible than the human spirit. It needs but to will, and the thing is done; the spirit is set on the right path.
I am by Nature made for my own good, not for my own evil.
We must approach this matter in an entirely different manner. It is great and mystical; it is no common thing, nor is it given to every man. Wisdom alone is not enough; a man needs a certain degree of readiness.
When a man tells you that you know nothing, and you are not angry at him, you may be sure that you have begun to work.
Practice yourself, for heaven’s sake, in little things, and then proceed to greater.
It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after your own; but the great man is he who, in the midst of the crowd, keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
He is the free man whom the truth makes free, and all are slaves besides.
Not to understand a treasure’s worth… is cause of half the poverty we feel, and makes the world the wilderness it is.
Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, have oft-times no connection. Knowledge dwells in heads replete with thoughts of other men; wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.
If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man.
