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You can tell the man who rings true from the man who rings false, not by his deeds alone, but also his desires.

It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.

Good means not merely not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.

It is better to correct your own faults than those of another.

Now as of old the gods give men all good things, excepting only those that are baneful and injurious and useless. These, now as of old, are not gifts of the gods: men stumble into them themselves because of their own blindness and folly.

My enemy is not the man who wrongs me, but the man who means to wrong me.

There are many who know many things, yet are lacking in wisdom.

Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains.

It's amazing how much "mature wisdom" resembles being too tired.

Happiness is good health and a bad memory.

Our species is the only creative species, and it has only one creative instrument, the individual mind and spirit of a man. Nothing was ever created by two men. There are no good collaborations, whether in music, in art, in poetry, in mathematics, in philosophy. Once the miracle of creation has taken place, the group can build and extend it, but the group never invents anything. The preciousness lies in the lonely mind of a man.

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

Nothing defines the quality of life in a community more clearly than people who regard themselves, or whom the consensus chooses to regard, as mentally unwell.

I'll do my dreaming with my eyes wide open, and I'll do my looking back with my eyes closed.

A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

Unlike the pattern which seems to prevail in the rest of life, in the human species the weak not only survive but often triumph over the strong. The self-hatred inherent in the weak unlocks energies far more formidable then those mobilized by an ordinary struggle for existence.

Passion holds up the botton of the world, while genius paints its roof.

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

You will not become a saint through other people's sins.

To be a human being means to possess a feeling of inferiority which constantly presses towards its own conquest...The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge for conquest and the more violent the emotional agitation.