He who is too much afraid of being duped has lost the power of being magnanimous.

True love is that which ennobles the personality, fortifies the heart, and sanctifies the existence.

Let mystery have its place in you ; do not be always turning up your whole soil with the ploughshare of self-examination, but leave a little fallow corner in your heart ready for any seed the winds may bring.

Truth above all, even when it upsets us and overwhelms us.

Our dependence outweighs our independence, for we are independent only in our desire, while we are dependent on our health, on nature, on society, on everything in us and outside us.

Wisdom consists in rising superior both to madness and to common sense, and is lending oneself to the universal illusion without becoming its dupe.

Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.