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It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement — that they seek power, success and wealth for themselves and admire them in others, and that they underestimate what is of true value in life.

Translation: If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.

The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us.

Tenderness between people is nothing other than awareness of the possibility of relations without purpose.

Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.

The straight line is regarded as the shortest distance between two people, as if they were points.

Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.

Where is the man who owes nothing to the land in which he lives? Whatever that land may be, he owes to it the most precious thing possessed by man, the morality of his actions and the love of virtue.

Gluttony is the vice of feeble minds. The gourmand has his brains in his palate, he can do nothing but eat; he is so stupid and incapable that the table is the only place for him, and dishes are the only things he knows anything about. Let us leave him to this business without regret; it is better for him and for us.

There is more than one kind of wisdom, and all are essential in the world; it is not bad that they should alternate.

Nature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves.

The happiest is he who suffers least; the most miserable is he who enjoys least.