Go on and increase in valor, O boy! this is the path to immortality.

It is rash to condemn where you are ignorant.

You must know for which harbor you are headed, if you are to catch the right wind to take you there.

There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.

The law of the pleasure in having done anything for another is, that the one almost immediately forgets having given, and the other remembers eternally having received.

Virtue depends partly upon training and partly upon practice; you must learn first, and then strengthen your learning by actions.

Remove severe restraint and what will become of virtue?