The dispersing and scattering our names into many mouths, we call making them more great.

As for our pupils talk, let his virtue and his sense of right and wrong shine through it and have no guide but reason. Make him understand that confessing an error which he discovers in his own argument even when he alone has noticed it is an act of justice and integrity, which are the main qualities he pursues; stubbornness and rancour are vulgar qualities, visible in common souls whereas to think again, to change one's mind and to give up a bad case on the heat of the argument are rare qualities showing strength and wisdom.

Our great and glorious masterpiece is to live appropriately.

It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength.

Whether the events in our life are good or bad, greatly depends on the way we perceive them.

How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.

A straight oar looks bent in the water. It matters not merely that we see a thing, but how we see it.