Battle not with monsters, for then you become one.

Each one of us must carry within the proof of immortality, it cannot be given from outside of us. To be sure, everything in natureis change but behind the change there is something eternal.

Everyone believes in his youth that the world really began with him, and that all merely exists for his sake.

Every step of life shows much caution is required.

Correction does much, but encouragement does more.

We are surrounded by abysses, but the greatest of all depths is in our own heart, and an irresistible leaning leads us there. Draw thyself from thyself!

Everything that frees our spirit without giving us control of ourselves is ruinous.