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True bravery is shown by performing without witness what one might be capable of doing before all the world.
If we cannot find contentment in ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.
A great spirit is above insult, injustice, grief, and mockery.
Few things are needed to make a wise man happy; nothing can make a foolish man content, and that is why most men are miserable.
Before we passionately desire anything which another enjoys, we should examine into the happiness of its possessor.
The sage attends to the inner, and not to the outer.
To see small beginnings is clearness of sight.
Use the light that is in you to recover your natural clearness of sight.
Perfect kindness acts without thinking of kindness.
While they dream, they do not know that they are dreaming.
The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.
Without going out of doors, one may know the whole world; without looking out of the window, one may see the way of heaven. The further one travels, the less one may know. Thus it is that without moving you may know; without looking you shall see; without doing you shall succeed.
Little minds are too much hurt by little events. Great minds understand all of them, and remain untouched.
We often inconvenience others, when we fancy we can never possibly do so.
Humility is often only a feigned submission, of which we make use to make others submissive. It is the trickery of pride which abases itself in order to exalt itself, and though it transforms itself in a thousand different ways, it is never better disguised and more capable of deceiving than when it conceals itself under the cloak of humility.
Where there is much pretense, much has been borrowed — nature never pretends.
As your enemies and your friends, so are you.
The freer you feel yourself in the presence of another, the more free is he.
All belief that does not make us more happy, more free, more loving, more active, more calm, is, I fear, a mistaken and superstitious belief.
Learn the value of a man’s words and expressions and you know him. Each man has a measure of his own for everything; this he offers you inadvertently in his words.
