A brand new mediocrity is thought more of than accustomed excellence.
Maturity is the slowness in which a man believes.
He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything.
All victories breed, and that over your superior is foolish or fatal.
Know what is evil, no matter how worshipped it may be. Let the man of sense not mistake it, even when clothed in brocade, or at times crowned in gold, because it cannot thereby hide its hypocrisy, for slavery does not lose its infamy, however noble the master.
The truth is generally seen, rarely heard.