Do not ask for what you will wish you had not got.

You must try to observe yourself more and more objectively, to look at everything in yourself as though another person.

Being aware of a single shortcoming within yourself is far more useful than being aware of a thousand in someone else!

For all men strive to grasp what they do not know, while none strive to grasp what they already know; and all strive to discredit what they do not excel in, while none strive to discredit what they do excel in. This is why there is chaos.

No one returns with good will to the place which has done him a mischief.

The charges we bring against others often come home to ourselves; we inveigh against our faults which are as much ours as theirs; and so our eloquence ends by tellings against ourselves.