“The mind only knows what lies near the heart, that alone isconscious of our affections. No disease is worse to a sensible manthan not to be content with himself.”

“The mind knows only what lies near the heart.”

“I hate ingratitude more in a manthan lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness,or any taint of vice whose strong corruptioninhabits our frail blood".”

“What a lovely place this world would be if only people would feel affection for everyone else, and all the ugliness of the human heart were to vanish - our envy of those better off than ourselves and our scorn for those worse off.”

“The bonds between ourselves and another person exists only in our minds. Memory as it grows fainter loosens them, and notwithstanding the illusion by which we want to be duped and which, out of love, friendship, politeness, deference, duty, we dupe other people, we exist alone. Man is the creature who cannot escape from himself, who knows other people only in himself, and when he asserts the contrary, he is lying.”

“Happiness is the contentment in the heart, peace of mind, a sense of stability, a right attitude and being content with what is sufficient.”