Knowledge of the soul is the only universal truth and the only wisdom - all other knowledge is transient.
Our greatest blessings come to us by way of madness, provided the madness is given us by divine gift.
The mere athlete becomes too much of a savage.
Equals, the proverb goes, delight in equals.
Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
... Societies aren t made of sticks and stones, but of men whose individual characters, by turning the scale one way or another, determine the direction of the whole.