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A strict belief in fate is the worst of slavery, imposing upon our necks an everlasting lord and tyrant, who we stand in awe of night and day.
Finally, the mind of man is so constructed that it is taken far more with disguises than with realities.
What is natural is never disgraceful.
He is wise who is wise to himself.
Cleverness is not wisdom.
Circumstance does not make the man; it reveals him to himself.
The fatal tendency of mankind to leave off thinking about a thing when it is no longer doubtful, is the cause of half their errors.
Sorrow compressed my heart, and I felt I would die, and then… Well, then I woke up.
Truth comes home to the mind so naturally that when we learn it for the first time, it seems as though we do no more than recall it to our memory.
We endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguises of the opposite virtues.
To the generality of men you cannot give a stronger hint for them to impose upon you than by imposing upon yourself.
Never let us be discouraged with ourselves. It is not when we are conscious of our faults that we are the most wicked, on the contrary, we are less so. We see by a brighter light, and let us remember for our consolation, that we never perceive our sins till we begin to cure them.
It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are, the more quiet and gentle we become towards the defects of others.
The entire root of your problem is that you cannot get outside of yourself.
Dwelling in the light, there is no occasion at all for stumbling, for all things are discovered in the light.
This simplicity expands itself little by little to outer things.
Truly, I see he that will but stand to the truth, it will carry him out.
True piety has in it nothing weak, nothing sad, nothing constrained. It enlarges the heart. It is simple, free, and attractive.
Make not a close friend of a melancholy, sad person. He will be sure to increase your adversity and decrease your good fortune. He goes always heavily loaded, and you must bear half.
If we were faultless, we should not be so much annoyed by the defects of those with whom we associate. If we were to acknowledge honestly that we have not virtue enough to bear patiently with our neighbor’s weaknesses, we should show our own imperfection, and this alarms our vanity.
