He who would do great things should not attempt them all alone.

No man is free who is a slave to the flesh.

It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.

Dissembling profiteth nothing; a feigned countenance, and slightly forged externally, deceiveth but very few.

We are so vain as to set the highest value upon those things to which nature has assigned the lowest place. What can be more coarse and rude in the mind than the precious metals, or more slavish and dirty than the people that dig and work them? And yet they defile our minds more than our bodies, and make the possessor fouler than the artificer of them. Rich men, in fine, are only the greater slaves.

To wish to be well is a part of becoming well.

It takes the whole of life to learn how to live, and - even more surprising - it takes the whole of life to learn how to die.