Noble be man, helpful and good!

Doesn't surprise me that Christ our Lord preferred to live with whores and sinners, seeing I go in for that myself.

How can we learn self-knowledge? Never by taking thought but rather by action. Try to do your duty and you'll soon discover what you're like.

Battle not with monsters, for then you become one.

Men are so constituted that every one undertakes what he sees another successful in, whether he has aptitude for it or not.

There is nothing in the world more pitiable than an irresolute man, oscillating between two feelings, who would willingly unite the two and who does not perceive that nothing can unite them

The brilliant passes, like the dew at morn; The true endures, for ages yet unborn.