The confidence which we have in ourselves gives birth to much of that which we have in others.
Learn to know yourself, and descend into yourself.
Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
It is much easier to obey your superior than to command yourself; and when you can do whatever you want, it's not easy to want only what you have to.
All the arts are like mirrors in which the human beings know and recognize something of themselves they ignored.
The art, my children, it is to be absolutely oneself.
This above all: to thine own self be true.
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
It is better to examine one's own faults than those of others.
A man always describes himself unconsciously whenever he describes anyone else.
In archery we have something like the way of the superior man. When the archer misses the center of the target, he turns round and seeks for the cause of his failure in himself.
I cannot live, experience, think, value, and act in any world which is not in some sense in me, and derives its meaning and truth from me.
Peace can only last where human rights are respected, where the people are fed, and where individuals and nations are free. True peace with oneself and with the world around us can only be achieved through the development of mental peace.
For the confirmation of my identity I depend entirely upon other people.
I want, by understanding myself, to understand others.
No one accuses without an underlying notion of punishment and revenge, even when he accuses his fate or himself.
It is a great aim of prudence never to be embarrassed. It is the sign of a real man, of a noble heart, for magnanimity is not easily put out.
He who controls himself once can always control himself.
To choose an adviser is nevertheless to commit oneself by that choice.
It is very true that we ought to think of the happiness of others; but it is not often enough said that the best thing we can do for those who love us is to be happy ourselves.
Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrusts himself.
Of the experience I have of myself, I find enough to make me wise, if I were but a good scholar.
I have ever held it as a maxim, never to do that through another, which it was possible for me to execute myself.
No one can do anything for the happiness of others if he cannot be happy himself.
Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in one's own sunshine.
He knows the universe, and himself he does not know.
Ego is a social institution with no physical reality. The ego is simply your symbol of yourself. Just as the word 'water' is a noise that symbolizes a certain liquid without being it, so too the idea of ego symbolizes the role you play, who you are, but it is not the same as your living organism.
Now, true humor begins when a man ceases to take himself seriously.
One can run away from anything but oneself.
I tell you: "Only you yourself can be your liberator!"
