Experience has further taught me this, that we ruin ourselves by impatience.

A liar would be brave toward God, while he is a coward toward men; for a lie faces God, and shrinks from man.

We may so seize on virtue, that if we embrace it with an overgreedy and violent desire, it may become vicious.

Nobody is exempt from saying stupid things, the harm is to do it presumptuously.

Socrates, who was a perfect model in all great qualities, ... hit on a body and face so ugly and so incongruous with the beauty of his soul, he who was so madly in love with beauty.

Silence and modesty are very valuable qualities in conversation.

Life itself is neither a good nor an evil: life is where good or evil find a place, depending on how you make it for them.