Both Empedocles and Heraclitus held it for a truth that man could not be altogether cleared from injustice in dealing with beasts as he now does.

The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.

Nature without learning is like a blind man; learning without Nature, like a maimed one; practice without both, incomplete. As in agriculture a good soil is first sought for, then a skilful husbandman, and then good seed; in the same way nature corresponds to the soil, the teacher to the husbandman, precepts and instruction to the seed.

The whole of life is but a moment of time. It is our duty, therefore to use it, not to misuse it.

Words will build no walls.

Those are greedy of praise prove that they are poor in merit.

It was not important how many enemies there are, but where the enemy is