Take care of your body with steadfast fidelity. The soul must see through these eyes alone, and if they are dim, the whole world is clouded.

One's roused by this, another finds that fit: Each loves the play for what he brings to it.

There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.

If you wish a wise answer, you must put a rational question.

I can promise to be sincere, but I cannot promise to be impartial.

What one has wished for in youth, in old age one has in abundance.

To rule is easy, to govern difficult.