No matter how hard I try, there are always people with exceptional advantages which I will never surpass. One should be more eager for strength, and less for victory, otherwise the greater effort he makes, the worse he is discouraged.

I have made up my mind now to lead a life different from a doomed sufferer and, eventually, different from a mediocre man. My start has been very much full of anxiety, and that is the sole reason why I have to face the ludicrous side of most ill moments.

If you affirm or deny yourself only because others treat you the same way, it will respectively fail your own expectation and confidence one day.

The capacity of life is made of someone to love, something to do, and some to hope for, which was told by a wise man before. But if it had to deprive two of them, I wish the left could be the work always for my devotion.

A person on his own, to get in touch with truth, has to experience first how he has done something, and then he could really acquire how the thing should have been done. Thoughts may precede, but are rather based on experience far ahead which not surely adapts to a new issue or problem.

When one beauty sits beside me, I am shy and have a dreamy sensation; but when two are at my left and my right, I would feel difficult and ill at ease.

Arrogance makes one disliked and modesty makes him favoured, as is not only applied in judging others, but how we are judged by others.

The people with veritable dignity are those not always successful, but with enterprising spirit which can stand all teases and taunts. Dignity is not a superior condition that has already been reached, but the state of continuously forging ahead.