The loftiness of understanding embraces all. It requires as much spirit to suffer the failings of others as it does to appreciate their good qualities.

Pettiness of mind, ignorance and presumption are the cause of stubbornness, because stubborn people only want to believe what they themselves can imagine, and they can imagine very few things.

To be too dissatisfied with ourselves is a weakness. To be too satisfied with ourselves is a stupidity.

It is a singular characteristic of love that we cannot hide it where it exists, or pretend it where it does not exist.

We prefer people who are trying to imitate us more than those who are trying to equal us. This is because imitation is a sign of esteem, but the desire to equal others is a sign of envy.

Honest and sincere acts mislead the wicked and cause them to lose their path to their own goals, because mean-spirited people usually believe that people never act without deceit.

It is vain and useless to survey everything that goes on in the world if our study does not help us mend our ways.

Sometimes we praise the way things used to be in order to blame the present, and we esteem what is no longer in order to scorn what is.

Mean-spirited mediocrities, especially those with a smattering of learning, are the most likely to be opinionated. Only strong minds know how to correct their opinions and abandon a bad position.

Even the best-natured people, if uninstructed, are always blind and uncertain. We must take pains to instruct ourselves so that ignorance makes us neither too timid nor too bold.

Criticism should awaken our attention, not inflame our anger. We should listen to, and not flee from, those who contradict us. Truth should be our cause, no matter in what manner it comes to us.

That's what we think because we can't imagine what it's like to not exist.

The fear of life is the favorite disease of the 20th century.

I loved Dad more for treating the biological reality as trivial, irrelevant. He loved me no less than his other three children.

In general, Americans like to be entertained. Canadians seem more suspicious of it.

Your tonal must accept that the nagual exists and that it's beneficial and healthy.

If you want to have a program for moving out into the universe, you have to think in centuries not in decades.

Everything I write is designed to be milked to the last drop of revenue.

but the bravest man among us is afraid of himself

I don't get easily bored. I'm not that kind of person.

A true friend never asks you to feed their imaginary fish. Or fertilize their imaginary crops.