The important thing is being capable of emotions, but to experience only one's own would be a sorry limitation.
The miser puts his gold pieces into a coffer; but as soon as the coffer is closed, it is as if it were empty.
It is better to fail at your own life than to succeed at someone else's.
Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death
Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.
It is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward.