Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.

The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.

We are much harder on people who betray us in small ways than on people who betray others in great ones.

We would often be ashamed of our best actions if the world only knew the motives behind them.

How can you expect another to keep a secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves?

A person who longs to leave the place where he lives is an unhappy person.

Hate traps us by binding us too tightly to our adversary.

The soul is a magician. Only living flesh hampers it.

Only the most naive of questions are truly serious.

The emotion of love gives all of us a misleading illusion of knowing the other.