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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.
It is not a man’s duty, as a matter of course, to devote himself to the eradication of any, even the most enormous wrong; he may still properly have other concerns to engage him; but it is his duty, at least, to wash his hands of it, and, if he gives it no thought longer, not to give it practically his support.
The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right.
I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.
If I were to discover that a certain kind of stone by the pond-shore was affected, say partially disintegrated, buy a particular natural sound, as of a bird or insect, I see that one could not be completely described without describing other. I am that rock by the pond side.
Ambition becomes displeasing once it is satisfied; there is a reaction. Our spirit endlessly aims towards some object, then falls back on itself, having nothing else on which to rest, and having reached the summit, it longs to descend.
But now you are awake; it is but a dream you had! For horror’s prey in darkness of the night is but our reason’s sport in morning light.
Freedom has a thousand charms to show, that slaves, however contented, never know.
Belief consists in accepting the affirmation of the soul; unbelief, in denying them.
Give yourself more diligently to reflection; come to know yourself.
What a brave privilege it is to be free from all contentions, from all envying or being envied, from receiving or paying all kinds of ceremonies!
