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Even a man’s exact imitation of the song of the nightingale displeases us when we discover that it is mimicry, and not the nightingale.
From a distance it is something; nearby it is nothing.
The man of inner life is easily aware of himself, since he is never totally absorbed in outward affairs. Therefore, his exterior occupations and necessary activities do not distract him, and he adjusts himself to things as they come. The man whose inner life is well-ordered, is not bothered by strange and troublesome ways of others. A man is blocked and distracted by such things only as he permits himself to be.
It is good to love the unknown.
The happy never say, and never hear said, farewell.
Consciousness of error is, to a certain extent, a consciousness of understanding, and correction of error is the plainest proof of energy and mastery.
Circumstances are things round about; we are in them, not under them.
There are people who would never be in love if they had never heard of love.
In the adversity of our best friends, we often find something which does not displease us.
Do you earnestly ponder and sincerely try to understand?
Let your understanding be your action.
We oftener say things because we can say them well, than because they are sound and reasonable.
By neglecting self-interest we achieve self-interest.
It is the Way of Heaven not to strive, and yet it knows how to overcome; not to speak, and yet it knows how to win a response.
What is not natively his own falls off and comes to nothing.
We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.
Leave all things to take their natural course and do not interfere.
We would gain more by letting ourselves be seen as we really are, than by attempting to appear what we are not.
To speak and to offend, with some people, are but one and the same thing.
The partial becomes whole, the crooked becomes straight, the empty becomes full, the worn out becomes new.
