Numbers have a way of taking a man by the hand and leading him down the path of reason.
If you're asked: What is the silence? Respond: It is the first stone of the Wisdom's temple.
No man is free who cannot control himself.
Strength of mind rests in sobriety; for this keeps your reason unclouded by passion.
It is only necessary to make war with five things; with the maladies of the body, the ignorances of the mind, with the passions of the body, with the seditions of the city and the discords of families.
We ought so to behave to one another as to avoid making enemies of our friends, and at the same time to make friends of our enemies.