The truth is that we isolate a particular kind of love and appropriate it for the name of love, which really belongs to a wider whole.

A work well begun is half-ended.

A man who is good for anything ought not to calculate the chance of living or dying; he ought only to consider whether in doing anything he is doing right or wrong - acting the part of a good man or of a bad.

There are some whom the applause of the multitude has deluded into the belief that they are really statesmen.

No soul willfully does wrong.

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

Too much attention to health is a hindrance to learning, to invention, and to studies of any kind, for we are always feeling suspicious shootings and swimmings in our heads, and we are prone to blame studies from them.