The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.

The world is a looking glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.

Everyone is a mirror image of yourself—your own thinking coming back at you.

Every man carries with him through life a mirror, as unique and impossible to get rid of as his shadow.

Let the man of learning, the man of lettered leisure, beware of that queer and cheap temptation to pose to himself and to others as a cynic, as the man who has outgrown emotions and beliefs, the man to whom good and evil are as one. The poorest way to face life is to face it with a sneer. There are many men who feel a kind of twisted pride in cynicism; there are many who confine themselves to criticism of the way others do what they themselves dare not even attempt. There is no more unhealthy being, no man less worthy of respect, than he who either really holds, or feigns to hold, an attitude of sneering disbelief toward all that is great and lofty, whether in achievement or in that noble effort which, even if it fails, comes to second achievement. A cynical habit of thought and speech, a readiness to criticize work which the critic himself never tries to perform, an intellectual aloofness which will not accept contact with life's realities — all these are marks, not as the possessor would fain to think, of superiority but of weakness. They mark the men unfit to bear their part painfully in the stern strife of living, who seek, in the affection of contempt for the achievements of others, to hide from others and from themselves in their own weakness. The role is easy; there is none easier, save only the role of the man who sneers alike at both criticism and performance.

Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it.

Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it

The Perfect Man uses his mind like a mirror - going after nothing, welcoming nothing, responding but not storing.

A mans manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.

The perfect man employs his mind as a mirror. It grasps nothing; it refuses nothing. It receives, but does not keep.

Chuang-tzu: ‘‘The perfect man employs his mind as a mirror; it grasps nothing; it refuses nothing; it receives, but does not keep.

Speech is a mirror of the soul; as a man speaks, so is he.

Every man carries within him through life a mirror, as unique and impossible to get rid of as his shadow.

A parlor game for a wet afternoon – imaging the mirrors of one’s friends. A has a huge pier glass, gilded and baroque, B a discreet little pocket mirror in a pigskin case with his initials stamped on the back; whenever one looks at C, he is in the act of throwing his mirror away but, if one looks in his pocket or up his sleeve, one always finds another, like an extra ace.

You're a very cynical man, Mr. Flint."
"That's one of the reasons you're on the road to becoming a very rich man, Mr. Ahasuerus.