There is no life without friendship

Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage.

Read at every wait; read at all hours; read within leisure; read in times of labor; read as one goes in; read as one goest out. The task of the educated mind is simply put: read to lead.

The soul in sleep gives proof of its divine nature.

Honor is the reward of virtue.

The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.

No man can be brave who thinks pain the greatest evil; nor temperate, who considers pleasure the highest good.