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He alone has energy who cannot be deprived of it.
We endeavor to make a virtue of the faults we are unwilling to correct.
Self-interest speaks all sorts of tongues, and plays all sorts of roles, even that of disinterestedness.
We take less pains to be happy than to appear so.
There are different kinds of curiosity; one springs from interest, which makes us desire to know everything that may be profitable to us; another from pride, which springs from a desire to know what others do not know.
Each heart is a world. You find all within yourself that you find without. The world that surrounds you is the magic glass of the world within you.
Who conquers indolence will conquer all the rest.
True philosophy is that which renders us to ourselves, and all others who surround us, better, and at the same time more content, more patient, more calm, and more ready for all decent and pure enjoyment.
The heights of ability consists in a thorough knowledge of the real value of things.
We become so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that at last we are disguised to ourselves.
Love sees what no eye sees; love hears what no ear hears.
That which causes us to think is dear to us, and everything which gives even a small impulse to our faculties is agreeable.
Intuition is the clear conception of the whole at once.
There is no path to truth. Truth must be discovered, but there is no formula for its discovery. What is formulated is not true. You must set out on the uncharted sea, and the uncharted sea is yourself. You must set out to discover yourself, but not according to any plan or pattern, for then there is no discovery.
We think few people sensible except those who are of our own opinion.
What men have given the name of friendship to is nothing but an alliance, a reciprocal accommodation of interests, an exchange of good offices; in fact, it is nothing but a system of traffic, in which self-love always proposes to itself some advantage.
You can depend upon no man, upon no friend, but on him who depends upon himself. Only he who acts beneficially towards himself will act so towards others.
He who diligently attends, pointedly asks, calmly speaks, coolly answers, and ceases when he has no more to say, is in possession of some of the best requirements of conversation.
He who reforms himself has done more towards reforming the public than a crowd of noisy, impotent patriots.
The moral enthusiast, who in the maze of his subtleties, loses or despises the plain paths of honesty and duty, is on the brink of crimes.
