“Young cat! If you keep / Your eyes open enough, / Oh, the stuff you will learn! / The most wonderful stuff!”
“Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.”
“Constancy does not begin, but is that which perseveres.”
“People with healthy self-esteem do not need to create pretend identities.”
“There should be no shame in admitting to a mistake; after all, we really are only admitting that we are now wiser than we once were.”
“When you learn how to die, you learn how to live.”
“What is the first business of one who practices philosophy? To get rid of self-conceit. For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn that which he thinks he already knows.”
“Self-respect is a question of recognizing that anything worth having has a price.”
“Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.”
“When we criticize others, we can’t help but notice the bad in ourselves. But when we look for the good in others, we start to see the best in ourselves too.”
