It is goodness that gives to a neighborhood its beauty. One who is free to choose, yet does not prefer to dwell among the good - how can he be accorded the name of wise?

Rate the task above the prize; will not the mind be raised? Fight thine own faults, not the faults of others; will not evil be mended?

Some are born with knowledge, some derive it from study, and some acquire it only after a painful realization of their ignorance. But the knowledge being possessed, it comes to the same thing. Some study with a natural ease, some from a desire for advantages, and some by strenuous effort. But the achievement being made, it comes to the same thing.

We should not be too familiar with the lower orders or with women.

Settle one difficulty, and you keep a hundred away.

By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.

The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort.