Men exist for each other. Then either improve them, or put up with them.

After all, what does fame everlasting mean? Mere vanity.

Everything is here for a purpose, from horses to vine shoots. What's surprising about that? Even the sun will tell you, "I have a purpose," and the other goods as well.

You are making an inopportune rejection of what Nature has given you today, if all your mind is set on what men will say of you tomorrow.

Embellish the soul with simplicity, with prudence, and everything which is neither virtuous nor vicious. Love all men. Walk according to God; for, as a poet hath said, his laws govern all.

A person's life is what their thoughts make it.

Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look.