He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.

I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.

Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one's own goodness.

Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.

There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.

When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.

I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind - and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.

Those who have compared our life to a dream were right... we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.

No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.

Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.

A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them.

If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.

Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; the world around him is the dream.

The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.

One may be humble out of pride.

The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.

There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self.

It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.

'Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.