We enter the world alone, we leave it alone.

The essence of greatness is neglect of the self.

We live merely on the crust or rind of things.

Just laws are no restraint upon the freedom of the good, for the good man desires nothing which a just law will interfere with.

What is called virtue in the common sense of the word has nothing to do with this or that man's prosperity, or even happiness.

The essence of true nobility is neglect of self. Let the thought of self pass in, and the beauty of a great action is gone, like the bloom from a soiled flower.

The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness. Where we find a heroic life appearing as the uniform fruit of a particular mode of opinion, it is childish to argue in the face of fact that the result ought to have been different.