“Man, know yourself and you shalt know the gods.”

We mustn’t confuse mastery with mimicry, knowledge with superstitious ignorance.

Envious greed must govern to possess and ambition must possess to govern.

If you defy an enemy by doubting his courage you double it.

What you are doing does not matter so much as what you are learning from doing it.

A pupil may show you by his own efforts how much he deserves to learn from you.

When the governing class isn’t chosen for quality it is chosen for material wealth: this always means decadence, the lowest stage a society can reach.

Each truth you learn will be, for you, as new as if it had never been written.

The body is the house of god. That is why it is said, “Man know yourself.”

As to deserving, know that the gift of heaven is free; this gift of Knowledge is so great that no effort whatever could hope to ‘deserve’ it.

To know means to record in one’s memory; but to understand means to blend with the thing and to assimilate it oneself.

If you are searching for a Neter, observe Nature!

If his heart rules him, his conscience will soon take the place of the rod.

To teach one must know the nature of those whom one is teaching.

The second concerning the ‘way’: the seeker has need of a Master to guide him and lift him up when he falls, to lead him back to the right way when he strays.

Peace is the fruit of activity, not of sleep.

Man must learn to increase his sense of responsibility and of the fact that everything he does will have its consequences.