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I love everything, and dislike one thing only: the desperate imprisonment of my being… Liberty for the inner man is then the strongest of my passions — perhaps my only passion.
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.
Who conquers indolence will conquer all the rest.
Even so
Doth valour’s show and valour’s worth divide
In storms of fortune.
The majority of men are, as it were, suspended in the air, like toy balloons; every breath of wind moves them.
Nothing will protect us from external compulsion as much as the control of ourselves, and, as Seneca says, to submit yourself to reason is the way to make everything else submit to you.
Consciousness of error is, to a certain extent, a consciousness of understanding, and correction of error is the plainest proof of energy and mastery.
The amity that wisdom knits not, folly may easily untie.
Who would claim that they are living according to God who throughout whole days or even months and years do not sigh out to God and do not aspire to God? A clear sign of death is not breathing. If this breathing is prayer, not to pray is a sign of death. The spiritual life, by which we are children of God, is rooted in love… Who loves without wanting to see the person he loves? God asks nothing of the highest soul but attention.
Truth is too simple for us… we do not like those who unmask our illusions.
All men who have sense and feeling are being continually helped; they are taught by every person they meet, and enriched by everything that falls in their way. The greatest is he who has been oftenest aided. Originality is the observing eye.
If you would do something, you must be something.
If you made a list of everything you own, everything you think of as you, everything you prefer, that list would be the distance between you and the living truth.
Day by day we are born as night retires, no more possessing aught of our former life, estranged from our course of yesterday, and beginning today the life that remains.
I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude.
There are the springs of the Great Spirit… To bathe in them gives new life, to drink temperatures every bodily ill.
Of all knowledge the wise and good seek most to know themselves.
Whatever cannot obey itself, is commanded. Such is the nature of living things.
Nature has not said to me, “Be not poor,” still less, “Be rich.” She calls out to me, “Be independent!”
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
