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Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself.

Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one’s own inner self.

Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion.

When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.

Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them.

If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles.

The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them.

We are wiser than we know.

I just feel like sometimes I’m a force to be dealt with. My talents are sometimes overused and also sometimes underused. It’s not easy being me.

Within us there is someone who knows everything, wills everything, does everything better than we ourselves.