Nothing is more odious than the majority, for it consists of a few powerful leaders, a certain number of accommodating scoundrels and submissive weaklings, and a mass of men who trot after them without thinking, or knowing their own minds.

Take care of your body with steadfast fidelity.

The best way to understand a painting is by drawing it.

The little that is completed, vanishes from the sight of one who looks forward to what is still to do.

Enjoy what thou has inherited from thy sires if thou wouldn't really possess it. What we employ and use is never an oppressive burden; what the moment brings forth, that only can it profit by.

These auspicious aspects, which the astrologers subsequently interpreted for me, may have been the causes of my preservation.

To know where a thing is we must have found it.