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.

If wisdom be attainable, let us not only win but enjoy it.

To be ignorant of the past is to be forever a child.

No deceit is so veiled as that which lies concealed behind the semblance of courtesy.

No man in his senses will dance.

Falsehoods border on truths.

We don't believe a liar even when he tells the truth.