If I cannot get men who steer a middle course to associate with, I would far rather have the impetuous and hasty. For the impetuous at any rate assert themselves.

Those who make virtue their profession are the ruin of virtue.

They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.

Don't let your past determine your destiny.

There is the love of knowing without the love of learning; the beclouding here leads to dissipation of mind.

He who requires much from himself and little from others, will keep himself from being the object of resentment.

All people are the same; only their habits differ.