You don't want to lose your old friend - the misery - You have invested too much into false - Hence the fear to be exposed -to be true - to be naked as you are.

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.

It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges.

I mistrust the judgement of every man in a case in which his own wishes are concerned.

I think, therefore I am.

Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.

Never ruin an apology with an excuse.

You have heard that it was said, 'Eye for eye, and tooth for tooth.' But I tell you, do not resist an evil person. If someone strikes you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also.

There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.

One who loses wealth loses much. One who loses a friend loses more. But one who loses courage loses all.

You laugh at me because I'm different, I laugh at you because you're all the same.

The path to success is to take massive, determined action.

In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.

Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.

What can't be cured must be endured.

The greatest power we have is the power of choice.

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.

Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.