Never impose on others what you would not choose for yourself.
It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.
A happy life, therefore, is one which is in accordance with its own nature.
The best means of learning to know oneself is seeking to understand others.
I accept the great adventure of being me.
Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself.
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
Envy is ever joined with the comparing of a man's self; and where there is no comparison, no envy.
It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
At any moment you choose you can retire within yourself. Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.
To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
Don't forget to love yourself.
If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.
To assail one's own wickedness and not assail that of others.
To be in love is to surpass one's self.
The true value of a human being can be found in the degree to which he has attained liberation from the self.
When man is happy, he is in harmony with himself and his environment.
Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom.
If you want to live in peace with yourself, you have to accept yourself as you are.
There is no higher rule than that over oneself, over one's impulses: there is the triumph of free will.
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
Let us see to it that all time belongs to us. This, however, cannot be unless first of all our own selves begin to belong to us.
I is another.
Demand much from yourself, little from others, and you will prevent discontent.
He who knows the art of living with oneself ignores boredom.
Article XIV – Each citizen has the right to ascertain, by himself or through his representatives, the need for a public tax, to consent to it freely, to know the uses to which it is put, and of determining the proportion, basis, collection, and duration.
To act freely is to retake possession of oneself; it is to place oneself back in pure duration.
Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.
