The noblest kind of retribution is not to become like your enemy.

How many together with whom I came into the world are already gone out of it.

It is the act of a madman to pursue impossibilities .

Purge your mind of all aimless and idle thoughts, especially those that pry into the affairs of others or wish them ill.

The offender needs pity, not wrath; those who must needs be corrected, should be treated with tact and gentleness; and one must be always ready to learn better. 'The best kind of revenge is, not to become like unto them.'

Put an end once and for all to this discussion of what a good person should be, and be one.

If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I seek the truth, by which no one ever was truly harmed. Harmed is the person who continues in his self-deception and ignorance.