“One puts oneself above all and crushes everything in one's way to get the best for oneself.”
“It's astonishing how much trouble one can get oneself into, if one works at it. And astonishing how much trouble one can get oneself out of, if one assumes that everything will, somehow or other, work out for the best.”
“To know oneself is, above all, to know what one lacks. It is to measure oneself against Truth, and not the other way around. The first product of self-knowledge is humility . . .”
“... one reads, above all, to prevent oneself thinking.”
“One could only damage oneself through the harm one did to others. One could never get directly at oneself.”
“One must not let oneself be misled: they say 'Judge not!' but they send to Hell everything that stands in their way.”