When you have discovered a stain in yourself, you eagerly seek for and gladly find stains in others.

Truly, one gets easier accustomed to a silken bed than to a sack of leaves.

To harbor hatred and animosity in the soul makes one irritable, gloomy, and prematurely old.

It is only when one is thoroughly true that there can be purity and freedom. Falsehood always punishes itself.

Only he is free who cultivates his own thoughts and strives without fear to do justice to them.

What will people say-in these words lies the tyranny of the world, the whole destruction of our natural disposition, the oblique vision of our minds. These four words hold sway everywhere.

Weak men are easily put out of humor. Oil freezes quicker than water.