When Heaven is about to confer a great office upon you, it first exercises your mind with suffering and your sinews and bones with toil.
Where it is permissible both to die and not to die, it is an abuse of valour to die.
Never lose your child's heart.
He who wishes to be benevolent will not be rich.
So I like life and I like righteousness; if I cannot keep the two together, I will let life go and choose righteousness.
Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.