To know what is the right thing to do and not do it is the greatest cowardice.
Just as lavishness leads easily to presumption, so does frugality to meanness. But meanness is a far less serious fault than presumption.
To be truly happy and contented, you must let go of what it means to be happy or content.
We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression.
In antiquity men studied for their own sake; nowadays men study for the sake of impressing others.
Who keeps the old akindle and adds new knowledge is fitted to be a teacher.