Friendship is a creature formed for a companionship not for a herd.

Fear sometimes adds wings to the heels, and sometimes nails them to the ground, and fetters them from moving.

There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.

'As a man who knows how to make his education into a rule of life not a means of showing off; who can control himself and obey his own principles.' The true mirror of our discourse is the course of our lives.

Pleasure itself is painful at the bottom.

Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.

The worst condition of humans is when they lose knowledge and control of themselves.