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.
There's a law in life: whenever a door closes, a new one will open.
The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.
One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.
Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
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.
We should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we’ll see.
Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself- and thus make yourself indispensable.
Believe those who seek the truth, doubt those who find it; doubt all, but do not doubt yourself.
By the time a philospher answers a question weve usually forgotten what was asked.
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.
The only real education comes from what goes counter to you.
There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.
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.
True eloquence forgoes eloquence.
Money cannot buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable. Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
Often the best in us springs from the worst in us.
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.
Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
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.
How do you know that the fruit is ripe? Simply because it leaves the branch.
It is better to fail at your own life than to succeed at someone else's.
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