Every other knowledge is harmful to him who does not have knowledge of goodness.

It is not without good reason, that he who has not a good memory should never take upon him the trade of lying.

It takes so much to be a king that he exists only as such. That extraneous glare that surrounds him hides him and conceals him from us; our sight breaks and is dissipated by it being filled and arrested by this strong light.

The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.

My trade and art is to live.

The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.

I do not teach. I relate.