To understand one thing well is better than understanding many things by halves.

How many kings are governed by their ministers, how many ministers by their secretaries? Who, in such cases, is really the chief?

I will be lord over myself.

Riches amassed in haste will diminish; but those collected by hand and little by little will multiply.

The few of understanding, vision rare, Who veiled not from the herd their hearts, but tried, Poor generous fools, to lay their feelings bare, Them have men always burnt and crucified.

Truth must be repeated again and again, because error is constantly being preached round about.

Only that type of story deserves to be called moral that shows us that one has the power within oneself to act, out of the conviction that there is something better, even against one's own inclination.