One of the best ways to elevate your character is to emulate worthy role models
To be getting an education means this: to be learning what is your own, and what is not your own.
Fortune is an evil chain to the body, and vice to the soul.
If what charms you is nothing but abstract principles, sit down and turn them over quietly in your mind: but never dub yourself a Philosopher.
The pleasure which we most rarely experience gives us greatest delight.
Only the educated are free.