In order to seek one's own direction, one must simplify the mechanics of ordinary, everyday life.
Love is a grave mental illness.
Great parts produce great vices as well as virtues.
Arithmetic has a very great and elevating effect, compelling the soul to reason about abstract number, and rebelling against the introduction of visible or tngible objects into the argument.
Any peace is better than any war
The honour of parents is a fair and noble treasure to their posterity, but to have the use of a treasure of wealth and honour, and to leave none to your successors, because you have neither money nor reputation of your own, is alike base and dishonourable.