Quotes

When you have fully considered all these things, approach, if you please—that is, if, by parting with them, you have a mind to purchase serenity, freedom, and tranquillity.

When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy.

What you are you do not see, what you see is your shadow.

As for that which is truly good, what can it stand in need of more than either justice or truth; or more than either kindness and modesty?

Consider first, man, what the matter is, and what your own nature is able to bear.

It is because he is thus free from striving that therefore no one in the world is able to strive with him.

You are a very strange creature by way of a friend!

There was always scope for fear so long as anything I loved remained behind.

Let us then, as children of the same parent, if not bastardized by being the younger born, reason together, and learn to submit to the authority of reason when her voice is distinctly heard.

To live happily is an inward power of the soul, when she is affected with indifferency, towards those things that are by their nature indifferent.

The knowledge of that unchanging rule produces a (grand) capacity and forbearance, and that capacity and forbearance lead to a community (of feeling with all things).

You have liked many a stupider person.

You gave her good advice and broke her heart.

The reason why heaven and earth are able to endure and continue thus long is because they do not live of, or for, themselves.

The business of her life was to get her daughters married: its solace was visiting and news.

The different accidents of life are not so changeable as the feelings of human nature.

Do not seat your love upon a precipice because it is high.

The moral which I gained from the dialogue was the power of truth over the conscience of even a slaveholder.