"Whatever discoveries we may have made in..." - Quote by Francois De La Rochefoucauld

“The reason we bitterly hate those who deceive us is because they think they are cleverer than we are.”

“Gratitude is a lively sense of benefits to come.”

“We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger.”

“I'm finally ready to own my own power, to say, "This is who I am." If you like it, you like it. And if you don't like it, you don't. So watch out; I'm gonna fly.”

“Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers.”

“To love yourself is a never-ending journey.”

“I can tell by my own reaction to it that this book is harmful." But let him only wait and perhaps one day he will admit to himself that this same book has done him a great service by bringing out the hidden sickness of his heart and making it visible.— Altered opinions do not alter a man’s character (or do so very little); but they do illuminate individual aspects of the constellation of his personality which with a different constellation of opinions had hitherto remained dark and unrecognizable.”

“Self-knowledge leads to wonder, and wonder to curiosity and investigation, so that nothing interests people more than people, even if only one's own person.”

“They say: 'If a man knew himself, he would know all mankind.' I say: 'If a man loved mankind, he would know something of himself.”