A man should be upright, not be kept upright.
A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.
Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.
Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.
And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last.
Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for nothing is made worse or better by praise.
Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.
As the same fire assumes different shapes When it consumes objects differing in shape, So does the one Self take the shape Of every creature in whom he is present.
Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.
Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.
Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.
Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.
Each thing is of like form from everlasting and comes round again in its cycle.
Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.
Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last.
Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it… Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle.
How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.
If you are pained by external things, it is not they that disturb you, but your own judgment of them. And it is in your power to wipe out that judgment now.
Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people’s actions, and see what they would be at, as often as it is practicable; and to make this custom the more significant, practice it first upon yourself.
Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live.
Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already.
Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.
Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.
Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.
Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.
Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.
Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.
Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.
Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers.
Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.
Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.
That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees.
The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.
The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious.
The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of a common underlying principle.
There are three classes into which all the women past seventy that ever I knew were to be divided: 1. That dear old soul; 2. That old woman; 3. That old witch.
Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.
We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of our controversies come from that.
We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne.
What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat.
Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.
When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man’s life.
When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.
You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
가난은 죄악의 어머니이다.
거창한 일이라도 우선 시작해보라. 손이 일에 착수 했다는 것으로써 일의 반은 이룬 셈이다. 그러나 아직 반이 남아있을 것이다. 한번 더 착수해보라. 그러면 일은 모두 마무리 되는 셈이다.
그것이 어려워 보인다 해서, 그것이 누가 성취하기 불가능 한것이라고 단정짓지 말라.
노여움은 숨길수없다.
노인으로 오래 살고싶다면 적절한 시기에 노인이 되어야 한다.
다른 사람이 말하는 일에는 세심한 주의를 기울이고, 되도록 말하는 상대방의 마음속으로 파고들도록 그대 자신을 길들이게 하라.
당신의 인생은 당신의 생각들이 만드는 것입니다.
마치 당신의 마지막 날인 것처럼 살라.
만약 그것이 옳은 일이 아니라면 행하지 말라; 진실되지 않은 것이라면 말하지 말라.
만약 어떤 외부적 요인에 의해 고통을 당한다면, 그 고통은 그것 자체 때문이 아니라 당신 자신이 그것을 평가하기 때문이다. 그리고 이것을 당신은 언제고 없앨 힘을 가지고 있다.
사람의 가치는 그의 야망보다 중요한 것이 아니다.
사람이 살수 있는 곳이라면, 그 역시 잘 살수도 있을 것이다.
선행을 하고도 나쁜 말을 듣는 사람은 행복하다.
성교는 오직 음악이나 기원에만 비교할수있다.
손실은 변화외에는 아무것도 아니다, 그리고 변화는 자연의 기쁨이다.
시작 – 시작이 반이다, 반은 남겨두자;다시 이걸 시작하라, 그러면 다 끝인것이다.
아무도 그가 사는 生 생 이상의 生을 잃지 않으며, 그가 잃는 生이상을 살지 않는다는 것을 명심하라.
어떤 사람이 좋은 사람인가 하는 논쟁으로 시간을 낭비하지 말라. 스스로 좋은 사람이 되어라.
용기가 없는 사람에게는 어떤 좋은 것도 생기지 않는다.
우리가 두려워해야 할 것은 죽음 그 자체가 아니다. 진정한 삶을 시작해보지도 못할까를 두려워해야 한다
우주는 변형체이다; 우리의 인생은 우리의 생각들이 만들어내는 것이다.
위험을 느끼는 항구에는 일절 정박을 하지 않는 것처럼, 안전 제일주의로 친구를 택하는 사람은 친구로 삼지 말라.
인간은 타인의 이익을 위해 존재한다.
자연이 예술을 아쉬워하는 일은 결코 없다. 예술은 자연의 모습의 복사물이기 때문이다.
전력을 다하여 자기 자신을 충실히 하기에 힘써라. 어찌 남이 내 비위를 맞추어 주지 않는다고 탓하면서 자신의 마음과 몸을 자기의 뜻대로 복종시키려고 하지 않는가.
죽음을 연기하는 것은 인생을 연기하는 것중 하나이다.
천성이 참기에 적합지 않은 사람에게는 아무 일도 일어나지 않는다.