Aspiring minds must sometimes sustain loss.

He who is learning and learning and doesn't apply what he knows is like the one who is plowing and plowing and doesn't seed.

We must infer that all things are produced more plentifully and easily and of a better quality when one man does one thing which is natural to him and does it at the right time, and leaves other things.

The ultimate design of the Mysteries ... was to lead us back to the principles from which we descended, ... a perfect enjoyment of intellectual [spiritual] good.

For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories... The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.

No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return.

The cure of the part should not be attempted without the cure of the whole.