Those who drink to drown their sorrow should be told sorrow knows how to swim.
Know yourself. Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.
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Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men—the other 999 follow women.
Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.
Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg crackles as if she had laid an asteroid.
A good joke is the one ultimate and sacred thing which cannot be criticized.
A friend is as it were a second self.
I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is the victory over self.
The whole universe is contained within a single human being—you.
The world will ask you who you are, and if you don't know, the world will tell you.
If someone succeeds in provoking you, realize that your mind is complicit in the provocation.
Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself.
No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.
If you spend your time hoping someone will suffer the consequences for what they did to your heart, then you’re allowing them to hurt you a second time in your mind.
I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.