Whatever you do, do with all your might.
It is a great thing to know your vices.
The well-known old remark of Cato, who used to wonder how two soothsayers could look one another in the face without laughing.
Genius is fostered by industry.
If a man aspires to the highest place, it is no dishonor to him to halt at the second, or even at the third.
It is the soul itself which sees and hears, and not those parts which are, as it were, but windows to the soul.