The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them.

The virtue of the soul does not consist in flying high, but in walking orderly.

Sometimes it is a good choice not to choose at all.

A man must learn to endure patiently what he cannot avoid conveniently.

The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world; yet all this is but One.

I may indeed very well happen to contradict myself; but truth, as Demades said, I do not contradict.

A tutor should not be continually thundering instruction into the ears of his pupil, as if he were pouring it through a funnel, but, after having put the lad, like a young horse, on a trot, before him, to observe his paces, and see what he is able to perform, should, according to the extent of his capacity, induce him to taste, to distinguish, and to find out things for himself; sometimes opening the way, at other times leaving it for him to open; and by abating or increasing his own pace, accommodate his precepts to the capacity of his pupil.