I have nothing to ask but that you would remove to the other side, that you may not, by intercepting the sunshine, take from me what you cannot give.

There is a false love that will make you something you are not.

The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.

Blushing is the color of virtue.

Antisthenes used to say that envious people were devoured by their own disposition, just as iron is by rust. Envy of others comes from comparing what they have with what the envious person has, rather than the envious person realising they have more than what they could have and certainly more than some others and being grateful. It is really just an inability to get a correct perspective on their lives.

Education gives sobriety to the young, comfort to the old, riches to the poor and is an ornament to the rich.

It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours.