The seen is the changing, the unseen is the unchanging.
The heaviest penalty for deciding to engage in politics is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.
Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
The first and the best victory is to conquer self.
The three wishes of every man: to be healthy, to be rich by honest means, and to be beautiful.
They (the poets) are to us in a manner the fathers and authors of the wisdom.