In politics people throw themselves, as on a sickbed, from one side to the other in the belief they will lie more comfortably.

Accepting good advice means nothing other than to strengthen one's own ability.

No man learns to know his inmost nature by introspection, for he rates himself sometimes too low, and often too high, by his own measurement. Man knows himself only by comparing himself with other men; it is life that touches his genuine worth.

If a good person does you wrong, act as though you had not noticed it. If we practice and eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, soon the wholeworld will be blind and toothless.

The art of living rightly is like all arts; it must be learned and practiced with incessant care.

The passions are like those demons with which Afrasahiab sailed down the Orus. Our only safety consists in keeping them asleep. If they we are lost.

One mind is enough for a thousand hands.