Give yourself fully to your endeavors. Decide to construct your character through excellent actions and determine to pay the price of a worthy goal. The trials you encounter will introduce you to your strengths.

Our duties naturally emerge form such fundamental relations as our families, neighborhoods, workplaces, our state or nation. Make it your regular habit to consider your roles-parent, child, neighbor, citizen, leader-and the natural duties that arise from them. Once you know who you are and to whom you are linked, you will know what to do.

He who exercises wisdom exercises the knowledge which is about God.

If one oversteps the bounds of moderation, the greatest pleasures cease to please.

You are a principal work, a fragment of [Goddess herself], you have in yourself a part of [her]. Why then are you ignorant of your high birth?

To pay homage to beauty is to admire Nature; to admire Nature is to worship God

Were I a nightingale, I would act the part of a nightingale; were I a swan, the part of a swan.