Nothing lays itself open to the change of exaggeration more than the language of naked truth.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain isnot due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you havethe power to revoke at any moment.

It'sgood to shut up sometimes.

Liberation is not deliverance.

Listening,not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us,that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

Anyone whoconducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence,just his memory.

Thetorment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause,is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangledmind’ leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.

A clynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing

Relationships of trust depend on our willingness to looknot only to our own interests, but also the interests of others.

Adversity introduces a man to himself.