Let every man consider virtue as what devolves on himself. He may not yield the performance of it even to his teacher.

The way you cut your meat reflects the way you live.

Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.

At seventy, I could follow the dictates of my own heart; for what I desired no longer overstepped the boundaries of right.

Learn, as if never overtaking your object, and yet as if apprehensive of losing it.

There are three things to beware of through life: when a man is young, let him beware of his appetites; when he is middle-aged, of his passions; and when old, of covetousness, especially.

Shall I tell you what knowledge is? It is to know both what one knows and what one does not know.