Whenever anything is spoken against you that is not true, do not pass by or despise it because it is false; but forthwith examine yourself, and consider what you have said or done that may administer a just occasion of reproof.

We rich men count our felicity and happiness to lie in these superfluities, and not in those necessary things.

To fail to do good is as bad as doing harm.

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

Nature without learning is blind, learning apart from nature is fractional, and practice in the absence of both is aimless.

These Macedonians are a rude and clownish people; they call a spade a spade.

Philosophy finds talkativeness a disease very difficult and hard to cure. For its remedy, conversation, requires hearers: but talkative people hear nobody, for they are ever prating. And the first evil this inability to keep silence produces is an inability to listen.