It is a great thing to know your vices.

More law, less justice.

The hours pass and the days and the months and the years, and the past time never returns.

In a disordered mind, as in a disordered body, soundness of health is impossible.

All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be brief.

Now in regard to trades and other means of livelihood, which ones are to be considered becoming to a gentleman and which ones are vulgar, we have been taught, in general, as follows. First, those means of livelihood are rejected as undesirable which incur people's ill-will, as those of tax-gatherers and usurers. Unbecoming to a gentleman, too, and vulgar are the means of livelihood of all hired workmen whom we pay for mere manual labour, not for artistic skill; for in their case the very wage they receive is a pledge of their slavery.

Do nothing twice over.