Begin by instructing yourself, then you will receive instruction from others.

Must it ever be thus-that the source of our happiness must also be the fountain of our misery? The full and ardent sentiment which animated my heart with the love of nature, overwhelming me with a torrent of delight, and which brought all paradise before me, has now become an insupportable torment, a demon which perpetually pursues and harrasses me.

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

Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.

Where I cannot be moral, my power is gone.

Duty is the demand of the hour.

As in Rome there is, apart from the Romans, a population of statues, so apart from this real world there is a world of illusion, almost more potent, in which most men live.