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Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
He who has great power should use it lightly.
There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.
Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.
To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.
I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappears on the scene.
What nature requires is obtainable, and within easy reach. It is for the superfluous we sweat.
Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature. Everything is organic and living, and therefore the whole world appears to be a living organism.
A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.