It needs good management to enjoy life. I enjoy it twice as much as others, for the measure of enjoyment depends on the greater or less attention that we give to it...The shorter my possession of life the deeper and fuller I must make it.

There is a plague on Man, the opinion that he knows something.

True freedom is to have power over oneself for everything.

When all is summed up, a man never speaks of himself without loss; his accusations of himself are always believed; his praises never.

.. since it was true that study, even when done properly, can only teach us what wisdom, right conduct and determination consist in, they wanted to put their children directly in touch with actual cases, teaching them not by hearsay but by actively assaying them, vigorously molding and forming them not merely by word and precept but chiefly by deeds and examples, so that wisdom should not be something which the soul knows but the soul's very essence and temperament, not something acquired but a natural property.

He who is not sure of his memory, should not undertake the trade of lying.

Rash and incessant scolding runs into custom and renders itself despised.