The higher our position the more modestly we should behave.

Be a pattern to others and then all will go well.

Civilized people are taught by logic, barbarians, by necessity, communities by tradition; and the lesson inculcated even in wild beasts by nature itself. They learn that they have to defend their own bodies and persons lives from violence of any and every kind by all means within their power.

It is our own evil thoughts which madden us.

Through ignorance of what is good and what is bad, the life of men is greatly perplexed.

When time and need require, we should resist with all our might, and prefer death to slavery and disgrace.

A home without books is a body without soul.