Before beginning, prepare carefully.

To add a library to a house is to give that house a soul.

Our span of life is brief, but is long enough for us to live well and honestly.

It is virtue itself that produces and sustains friendship, not without virtue can friendship by any possibility exist.

The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.

It is difficult to set bounds to the price unless you first set bounds to the wish.

I will adhere to the counsels of good men, although misfortune and death should be the consequence.