- 1Note — Introduction
- 2Chapter I. — General Rules
- 3Section 2 — To Estimate a Man’s Condition in Regard to Happiness, I…
- 4Section 3 — Care Should Be Taken Not to Build the Happiness of Life
- 5Chapter II. — Our Relation to Ourselves
- 6Section 5 — Another Important Element in the Wise Conduct of Life I…
- 7Section 6 — Limitations Always Make for Happiness. We Are Happy in
- 8Section 7 — Whether We Are in a Pleasant or a Painful State Depends
- 9Section 8 — To Live a Life That Shall Be Entirely Prudent and Discreet
- 10Section 9 — To Be Self-Sufficient, to Be All in All to Oneself, to
- 11Section 10 — Envy Is Natural to Man; and Still, It Is at Once a Vice
- 12Section 11 — Give Mature and Repeated Consideration to Any Plan Before
- 13Section 13
- 14Section 13 — In All Matters Affecting Our Weal or Woe, We Should Be
- 15Section 14 — The Sight of Things Which Do Not Belong to Us Is Very Apt
- 16Section 15 — The Things Which Engage Our Attention — Whether They Are
- 17Section 16 — We Must Set Limits to Our Wishes, Curb Our Desires
- 18Section 17 — Life Consists in Movement, Says Aristotle; and He Is
- 19Section 18 — A Man Should Avoid Being Led on by the Phantoms of His
- 20Section 19 — The Preceding Rule May Be Taken as a Special Case of the
- 21Section 20 — In the First Part of This Work I Have Insisted Upon the
- 22Chapter III — Our Relation to Others
- 23Section 22 — It Is Astonishing How Easily and How Quickly Similarity
- 24Section 23 — No Man Can See Over His Own Height. Let Me Explain What
- 25Section 24 — I Feel Respect for the Man — And He Is One in a
- 26Section 25 — La Rochefoucauld Makes the Striking Remark That It Is
- 27Section 26 — Most Men Are So Thoroughly Subjective That Nothing Really
- 28Section 27 — When Any Wrong Statement Is Made, Whether in Public or
- 29Section 28 — Men Are Like Children, in That, If You Spoil Them, They
- 30Section 29 — It Is Often the Case That People of Noble Character and
- 31Section 30 — No Man Is So Formed That He Can Be Left Entirely to
- 32Section 31 — A Man Bears the Weight of His Own Body Without Knowing It
- 33Section 32 — When He Is Young, a Man of Noble Character Fancies That
- 34Section 33 — As Paper-Money Circulates in the World Instead of Real
- 35Section 34 — A Man Must Be Still a Greenhorn in the Ways of the
- 36Section 35 — Our Trust in Other People Often Consists in Great Measure
- 37Section 36 — Politeness — Which the Chinese Hold to Be a Cardinal
- 38Section 37 — You Ought Never to Take Any Man as a Model for What You
- 39Section 38 — Never Combat Any Man’s Opinion; for Though You Reached…
- 40Section 39 — If You Want Your Judgment to Be Accepted, Express It
- 41Section 40 — Even When You Are Fully Justified in Praising Yourself
- 42Section 41 — If You Have Reason to Suspect That a Person Is Telling…
- 43Section 42 — You Should Regard All Your Private Affairs as Secrets
- 44Section 44 — If Possible, No Animosity Should Be Felt for Anyone. But
- 45Section 45 — To Speak Angrily to a Person, to Show Your Hatred by
- 46Section 46 — To Speak Without Emphasizing Your Words — Parler Sans
- 47Chapter IV — Worldly Fortune
- 48Section 48 — An Ancient Writer Says, Very Truly, That There Are Three
- 49Section 49 — That Time Works Great Changes, and That All Things Are
- 50Section 50 — In the Daily Affairs of Life, You Will Have Very Many
- 51Section 51 — Whatever Fate Befalls You, Do Not Give Way to Great
- 52Section 52 — What People Commonly Call Fate Is, as a General Rule
- 53Section 53 — Courage Comes Next to Prudence as a Quality of Mind Very
- 54Chapter V — The Ages of Life
Counsels and Maxims
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