The long time to come when I shall not exist has more effect on me than this short present time, which nevertheless seems endless.

Favours out of place I regard as positive injuries.

There is no duty more indispensible than that of returning a kindness.

Wisdom is not only to be acquired, but enjoyed.

But the Night Mother is mother to all! It is her voice we follow! Her will! Would you dare risk disobedience? And surely... punishment?

We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names.

Few are those who wish to be endowed with virtue rather than to seem so.