Boys should abstain from all use of wine until their eighteenth year, for it is wrong to add fire to fire.
Numbers are the highest degree of knowledge. It is knowledge itself.
The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles.
For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.
Ignorance: the root of all evil.
Discordance is evil. Harmony is virtue.