I hate you most because you attract, but are not strong enough to pull me to you.

The way to transmute your iron duty into gold in everyone's eyes is this: always deliver more than you promise.

When anyone apologizes to us he has to do it very expertly: otherwise we might easily come to see ourselves as the guilty party and experience unpleasant feelings.

Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.

One must separate from anything that forces one to repeat No again and again.

The more a person indulges himself the less others are willing to indulge him.

And if you are not a bird, then beware of coming to rest above an abyss.