We tell lies, yet it is easy to show that lying is immoral.

No great thing is created suddenly. There must be time. Give your best and always be kind.

What is learned without pleasure is forgotten without remorse.

You can be invincible, if you enter into no contest in which it is not in your power to conquer.

When we act pugnaciously, and injuriously, and angrily, and rudely, to what level have we degenerated? To the level of the wild beasts. Well, the fact is that some of us are wild beasts of a larger size, while others are little animals, malignant and petty.

The soul's impurity consists in bad judgements, and purification consists in producing in it right judgements, and the pure soul is one which has right judgements, for this alone is proof against confusion and pollution in its functions.

If a man is unhappy, remember that his unhappiness is his own fault, for God made all men to be happy.