Choose always the way that seems the best, however rough it may be; custom will soon render it easy and agreeable.

No man is free who cannot control himself.

Thought is an Idea in transit, which when once released, never can be lured back, nor the spoken word recalled.

Do not talk a little on many subjects, but much on a few.

Souls never die, but always on quitting one abode pass to another. All things change, nothing perishes. The soul passes hither and thither, occupying now this body, now that... As a wax is stamped with certain figures, then melted, then stamped anew with others, yet it is always the same wax. So, the Soul being always the same, yet wears at different times different forms.

Educate the children and it won't be necessary to punish the men.

No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself.