The absolute good is not a matter of opinion but of nature.

Trust no one unless you have eaten much salt with him.

Friendship is not to be sought for its wages, but because its revenue consists entirely in the love which it implies.

Wisdom often exists under a shabby coat.

It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.

For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.

I wonder that a soothsayer doesn't laugh whenever he sees another soothsayer.