Boys should abstain from all use of wine until their eighteenth year, for it is wrong to add fire to fire.

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.

We obtain better knowledge of a person during one hour's play and games than by conversing with him for a whole year

Those having torches will pass them on to others.

If you do not take an interest in the affairs of your government, then you are doomed to live under the rule of fools.

To think truly is noble and to be deceived is base.

You ought not to heal the body without the soul, for this is the great error of our day in treating the human body.