Those who love wisdom must investigate many things

Presumption must be quenched even more than a fire.

For when is death not within our selves? And as Heracleitus says: “Living and dead are the same, and so are awake and asleep, young and old. The former when shifted are the latter, and again the latter when shifted are the former."

The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you choose, what you think and what you do is who you become.

Though wisdom is common, yet the many live as if they had a wisdom of their own.

It is hard to contend against one's heart's desire; for whatever it wishes to have it buys at the cost of soul.

We have to be faster in calming down a resentment than putting out a fire, because the consequences of the first are infinitely more dangerous than the results of the last; fire ends burning down some houses at the most, while the resentment can cause cruel wars, with the ruin and total destruction of nations.