Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age.

The authors who affect contempt for a name in the world put their names to the books which they invite the world to read.

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

A mental stain can neither be blotted out by the passage of time nor washed away by any waters.

It was fear that was then making you a good citizen, which is never a lasting teacher of duty.

Can there be greater foolishness than the respect you pay to people collectively when you despise them individually?

All literature, all philosophical treatises, all the voices of antiquity are full of examples for imitation, which would all lie unseen in darkness without the light of literature.