Do not wish for quick results, nor look for small advantages. If you seek quick results, you will not reach the ultimate goal. If you are led astray by small advantages, you will never accomplish great things.

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

In antiquity men studied for their own sake; nowadays men study for the sake of impressing others.

Waste begets self-will; thrift begets meanness: but better be mean than self-willed.

True wisdom is knowing what you don't know

Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.

Virtue is not solitary; it is bound to have neighbors