“Resolve to be thyself; and know, that he who finds himself, loses his misery.”

“Know thyself,’ said Socrates.Know thyself,’ said Sappho, ‘and make sure that the Church never finds out.”

“A man who finds himself among others is irritated because he does not know why he is not one of the others.In bed next to a girl he loves, he forgets that he does not know why he is himself instead of the body he touches.Without knowing it, he suffers from the mental darkness that keeps him from screaming that he himself is the girl who forgets his presence while shuddering in his arms.”

“he who vaunts himself does not find his merit acknowledged;”

“At thirty a man suspects himself a fool;Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan;At fifty chides his infamous delay,Pushes his prudent purpose to resolve;In all the magnanimity of thoughtResolves; and re-resolves; then dies the same.”

“Not knowing how he lost himself, or how he recovered himself, he may never feel certain of not losing himself again.”