I don't know, I don't care, and it doesn't make any difference.

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual's own reason and critical analysis.

You want a love which is born out of meditation, not born out of the mind.

Don't take tomorrow to bed with you.

Do not reveal what you have thought upon doing, but by wise council keep it secret being determined to carry it into execution.

Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.

Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.

Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a general natural law

A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

Be realistic: Plan for a miracle

Obsession is the wellspring of genius and madness.

Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!

The ethos of redemption is realized in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires.

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.