It is a base thing for the countenance to be obedient and to regulate and compose itself as the mind commands, and for the mind not to be regulated and composed by itself. Book VII
A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it. The Portrait of Mr. W. H.
I do not love men: I love what devours them. Prometheus Misbound
Say to yourself in the early morning: I shall meet today inquisitive, ungrateful, violent, treacherous, envious, uncharitable men. All these things have come upon them through ignorance of real good and ill. Book II
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