Love is a severe mental disorder.

A fit of laughter, which has been indulged to excess, almost always produces a violent reaction.

What if the man could see Beauty Itself, pure, unalloyed, stripped of mortality, and all its pollution, stains, and vanities, unchanging, divine,... the man becoming in that communion, the friend of God,... ?

Remember our words, then, and whatever is your aim let virtue be the condition of the attainment of your aim, and know that without this all possessions and pursuits are dishonourable and evil.

They ought to be gentle to their friends and dangerous to their enemies.

Maximize the power of the beliefs that strengthen you and neutralize those that weaken you.

Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.