It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbour.
If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.
Intolerance itself is a form of egoism, and to condemn egoism intolerantly is to share it.
Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else.
We are all special cases. We all want to appeal to something! Everyone insists on his innocence, at all costs, even if it means accusing the rest of the human race and heaven.
Living with egoist is commiting suicide for the love.
Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.
To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance.
We all have strength enough to endure the misfortunes of others.
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers.
Egotist, n. A person of low taste, more interested in himself than in me.
There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.
In jealousy there is more of self-love than love.
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not any man's greed.
We are all worms, but I do believe I am a glowworm.
Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.
We confess to little faults only to persuade ourselves we have no great ones.
Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.
The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.
