When you take a man as he is, you make him worse. When you take a man as he can be, you make him better.

Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

We accept every person in the world as that for which he gives himself out, only he must give himself out for something. We can put up with the unpleasant more easily than we can endure the insignificant.

Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.

Even though the world as a whole progresses, youth must always start again from the beginning, and as individuals go through the epochs of the world's culture.

Let there be truth between us.

The most fortunate of men, Be he a king or commoner, is he Whose welfare is assured in his own home.