Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.
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When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.
The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.
Man is a universe in little.
The poets and philosophers before me discovered the unconscious; what I discovered was the scientific method by which the unconscious can be studied.
If you cannot be honest with yourself, there is no hope of being honest with anyone else.
Peaces comes from within. Do not seek it without.
Know yourself. Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.
The world will ask you who you are, and if you don't know, the world will tell you.
He who has so little knowledge of human natures as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.
It doesn't matter how smart you are unless you stop and think.
Benevolence is man’s mind, and righteousness is man’s path.
I do nothing upon myself, and yet am mine own executioner.
