All men in the abstract are just and good.
Many of the historical proverbs have a doubtful paternity.
I find it more credible, since it is anterior information, that one man should know heaven, as the Chinese say, than that so many men should know the world.
Every man's task [his 'great dream' and impassioned life-goal] is his life preserver.
The only prudence in life is concentration.
All nobility in its beginnings was somebody's natural superiority.