The nearest way to glory a shortcut, as it were is to strive to be what you wish to be thought to be.

The envious person grows lean with the fatness of their neighbor.

A system of morality that is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception that has nothing sound in it and nothing true.

A man should inure himself to voluntary labor, and not give up to indulgence and pleasure, as they beget no good constitution of body nor knowledge of mind.

The heart of the person before you is a mirror. See there your own form.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

Wars and revolutions and battles are due simply and solely to the body and its desires. All wars are undertaken for the acquisition of wealth; and the reason why we have to acquire wealth is the body, because we are slaves in its service.