Resolve to find thyself; and to know that he who finds himself, loses his misery

In his poetry as well as in his life Shelley was indeed 'a beautiful and ineffectual angel', beating in the void his luminous wings in vain

Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.

Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge

Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.

If we do not know ourselves to be full of pride, ambition, lust, weakness, misery, and injustice, we are indeed blind. And if, knowing this, we do not desire deliverance, what can we say of a man...?