Those who reproach injustice do so because they are afraid not of doing it but of suffering it.
To do injustice is more disgraceful than to suffer it.
For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.
Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.
In an honest man there is always something of a child.
A library of wisdom, is more precious than all wealth, and all things that are desirable cannot be compared to it. Whoever therefore claims to be zealous of truth, of happiness, of wisdom or knowledge, must become a lover of books.