Moderation is the center wherein all philosophies, both human and divine, meet.
The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation.
We can know nothing of humankind without knowing something of ourselves. Self-knowledge is the property of those people whose passions have their full play, but who ponder over their results.
Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.
Life is too short to be little.
The fruit of my tree of knowledge is plucked, and it is this: “Adventures are to the adventurous.”