Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly.

I saw some piglets suckling their dead mother. After a short while they shuddered and went away. They had sensed that she could no longer see them and that she wasn't like them any more. What they loved in their mother wasn't her body, but whatever it was that made her body live.

The demands that a great man makes are on himself; those of a petty man are upon others.

Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.

Be loyal and trustworthy. Do not befriend anyone who is lower than yourself in this regard.

To prefer it is better than to only know it. To delight in it is better than merely to prefer it.

She who is born with beauty is born with a sorrow for many a man.