If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.
Knowledge can be communicated, but wisdom cannot. A man can find it, he can live it, he can be filled and sustained by it, but he cannot utter or teach it.
When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane
People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.
The best weapons against the infamies of life are courage, wilfulness and patience. Courage strenthens, wilfulness is fun and patience provides tranquility.
Opinions mean nothing; they may be beautiful or ugly, clever or foolish, anyone can embrace or reject them.
