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.

Hatred is a heavy burden. It sinks the heart deep in the breast, and lies like a tombstone on all joys.

If thou wouldst hear what seemly is and fit, inquire of noble woman; they can tell, who in life's common usage hold their place by graceful deed and aptly chosen word.

Most man only care for science so far as they get a living by it, and that they worship even error when it affords them a subsistence.

Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them.

I am amazed to see how deliberately I have entangled myself step by step. To have seen my position so clearly, and yet to have acted so like a child!

On the pinnacle of success man does not stand firm long.