Obtain from yourself all that makes complaining useless. No longer implore from others what you yourself can obtain.

I can't expect others to share my virtues. It's good enough for me if they share my vices.

Understand that the only possession of any value is life.

The most decisive actions of our life - I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future - are, more often than not, unconsidered.

The individual never asserts himself more than when he forgets himself.

An unprejudiced mind is probably the rarest thing in the world; to nonprejudice I attach the greatest value.

Never have I been able to settle in life. Always seated askew, as if on the arm of a chair; ready to get up, to leave.