If a good person does you wrong, act as though you had not noticed it. If we practice and eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, soon the wholeworld will be blind and toothless.

Mastery passes often for egotism.

No two men see the world exactly alike, and different temperaments will apply in different ways a principle that they both acknowledge.

Without my attempts in natural science, I should never have learned to know mankind such as it is. In nothing else can we so closely approach pure contemplation and thought, so closely observe the errors of the senses and of the understanding, the weak and strong points of character.

The man who masters himself is delivered from the force that binds all creatures.

We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.

When you praise someone you call yourself his equal.