Throw away my book: you must understand that it represents only one of a thousand attitudes. You must find your own. If someone else could have done something as well as you, don’t do it. If someone else could have said something as well as you, don’t say it—or written something as well as you, don’t write it. Grow fond only of that which you can find nowhere but in yourself, and create out of yourself, impatiently or patiently, ah! that most irreplaceable of beings.
Most often people seek in life occasions for persisting in their opinions rather than for educating themselves.
It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it; often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle.
We should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we’ll see.
Solitude is bearable only with God.
Know that joy is rarer, more difficult, and more beautiful than sadness. Once you make this all-important discovery, you must embrace joy as a moral obligation.
The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.
To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.
One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
There's a law in life: whenever a door closes, a new one will open.
Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes.
I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress.
Whoever starts out toward the unknown must consent to venture alone.
Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself- and thus make yourself indispensable.
There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.
I can't expect others to share my virtues. It's good enough for me if they share my vices.
A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly
Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
Money cannot buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable. Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.
Often the best in us springs from the worst in us.
Only fools don't contradict themselves
It is better to fail at your own life than to succeed at someone else's.
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