Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.

The spirit is the true self, not that physical figure which can be pointed out by your finger.

What is becoming is honest, and whatever is honest must always be becoming.

All the arts of refinement have mutual kinship.

Let your desires be ruled by reason.

Nor do I regret that I have lived, since I have so lived that I think I was not born in vain, and I quit life as if it were an inn, not a home.

I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.