I have not seen a person who loved virtue, or one who hated what was not virtuous. He who loved virtue would esteem nothing above it.

The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their proper name.

To know that one knows what one knows, and to know that one doesn't know what one doesn't know, there lies true wisdom.

I have never seen a man as fond of virtue as of women.

A wise man seeks by music to strengthen his soul: the thoughtless one uses it to stifle his fears.

The perfecting of one's self is the fundamental base of all progress and all moral development.

Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.