It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

All infractions of love and equity in our social relations are speedily punished--by fear…be honest with a man and you have no fear. Try to deceive and the relationship deteriorates.

For it is only the finite that has wrought and suffered; the infinite lies stretched in smiling repose.

The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be a friend.

What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness.

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

It is one of the beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself… Serve and thou shall be served.

It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

Every man should let out all the length of all the reigns; should find or make a frank and healthy expression of what force and meaning is in him.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

O friend, never strike sail to a fear!

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