Tony St. Pierre

“Your thoughts will be as your accustomed practice is.”

“Until we have begun to go without them, we fail to realize how unnecessary many things are. We've been using them not because we needed them but because we had them.”

“It is not possible for anyone to conceal his bad state from himself, but many try.”

“The soul does violence to itself when it gives way to pain; when it turns away from the duty of man; when it is overcome by pleasure or pain.”

“You should make yourself independent of externals.”

“How should a man live, if he does not study what is real?”

“What progress, then? To desire each thing as it happens.”

“Strip away the impression, and the harm is gone. What is 'the impression'? A notion, or a thought, that you have about something.”

“What good does it do you to display your learning for which you do not care? You are not learning for school, but for life.”

“Nothing is more dangerous than an easy conscience.”

“Keep your ruling faculty pure, for nothing that happens outside it can ever affect it.”

“As it is more becoming for a philosopher to write well than to write much, so it is more honorable to speak well than to speak much.”

“Your worth is determined by what you give, not by what you receive.”

“The greatest use of your reason is in dealing with impressions”

“In times of security, prepare for war.”