A person of your century: Great persons are of their time. Not all were born into a period worthy of them, and many so born failed to benefit by it. Some merited a better century, for all that is good does not always triumph. Fashions have their periods and even the greatest virtues, their styles. But the philosopher, being ageless, has one advantage: Should this not prove the right century, many to follow will.

Evil report carries further than any applause.

Fortune soon tires of carrying anyone long on her shoulders.

There is no revenge like oblivion, for it is the entombment of the unworthy in the dust of their own nothingness.

There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled.

Mix a little mystery with everything, for mystery arouses veneration.

It is better to have too much courtesy than too little, provided you are not equally courteous to all, for that would be injustice.