The unexamined life is not worth living.
One can have no smaller or greater mastery
than mastery of oneself.
What lies behind us
and what lies before us
are tiny matters compared to
what lies within us.
Who looks outside, dreams;
who looks inside, awakes.
We don’t see things as they are,
we see them as we are.
To know yourself,
you must sacrifice the illusion
that you already do
Knowing yourself is
the beginning of all wisdom.
To improve is to change;
to be perfect is to change often
People travel to wonder at the height of the mountains,
at the huge waves of the seas, at the long courses of the rivers,
at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars;
and yet they pass by themselves without wondering.
