Commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still.

To sum up: I am the man who when the concern pressed him and his way was straitened and he could find no other device by which to teach a demonstrable truth other than by giving satisfaction to a single virtuous man while displeasing ten thousand ignoramuses - I am he who prefers to address that single man by himself, and I do not heed the blame of those many creatures.

Work before eating, rest after eating. Eat not ravenously, filling the mouth gulp after gulp without breathing space.

Lose with truth and right rather than gain with falsehood and wrong.

Further, there are things of which the mind understands one part, but remains ignorant of the other; and when man is able to comprehend certain things, it does not follow that he must be able to comprehend everything.

The whole object of the Prophets and the Sages was to declare that a limit is set to human reason where it must halt.

A small amount of wine such as three or four glasses is of benefit for the preservation of the health of human beings and an excellent remedy for most illnesses.