I know and love the good, yet, ah! the worst pursue.
For though I am a body of this earth, my firm desire is born from the stars.
Where you are is of no moment, but only what you are doing there. It is not the place that ennobles you, but you the place, and this only by doing that which is great and noble.
Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
I have taken pride in others, never in myself.
Do you suppose there is any living man so unreasonable that if he found himself stricken with a dangerous ailment he would not anxiously desire to regain the blessing of health?