I want, by understanding myself, to understand others.
It is a great aim of prudence never to be embarrassed. It is the sign of a real man, of a noble heart, for magnanimity is not easily put out.
He who controls himself once can always control himself.
It is very true that we ought to think of the happiness of others; but it is not often enough said that the best thing we can do for those who love us is to be happy ourselves.
Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrusts himself.
Of the experience I have of myself, I find enough to make me wise, if I were but a good scholar.
I have ever held it as a maxim, never to do that through another, which it was possible for me to execute myself.
No one can do anything for the happiness of others if he cannot be happy himself.
Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in one's own sunshine.
He knows the universe, and himself he does not know.
Ego is a social institution with no physical reality. The ego is simply your symbol of yourself. Just as the word 'water' is a noise that symbolizes a certain liquid without being it, so too the idea of ego symbolizes the role you play, who you are, but it is not the same as your living organism.
Now, true humor begins when a man ceases to take himself seriously.
One can run away from anything but oneself.
I tell you: "Only you yourself can be your liberator!"
The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power.
We reproach people for talking about themselves but it is the subject they treat best.
I am always astonishing myself. It is the only thing that makes life worth living.
A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali.
We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.
Nothing should so much diminish the satisfaction which we feel with ourselves as seeing that we disapprove at one time of that which we approve of at another.
Those who think they have merit persuade themselves that they are honoured by being unhappy, in order to persuade others and themselves that they are worthy to be the butt of fortune.
To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.
Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.
Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.
