It is thus only this personal feeling of misery that we get rid of by acts of pity.

The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions.

Active, successful natures act, not according to the maxim, "know thyself," but as if prompted by the commandment: will a self, and so become a self.

Man's task is simple. He should cease letting his existence be a thoughtless accident.

Learn to see - accustoming the eye to calm, to patience, to letting-things-come-to-it; learning to defer judgment, to encircle and encompass the question on all sides.

One never perishes through anybody but oneself.

Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.