Hesitation is the best cure for anger. The first blows of anger are heavy, but if it waits, it will think again.

The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it

It is difficult to bring people to goodness with lessons, but it is easy to do so by example.

The philosopher: he alone knows how to live for himself. He is the one, in fact, who knows the fundamental thing: how to live.

We haven't time to spare to hear whether it was between Italy and Sicily that he ran into a storm or somewhere outside the world we know-when every day we're running into our own storms, spiritual storms, and driven by vice into all the troubles that Ulysses ever knew.

There is no genius without a mixture of madness.

Many person might have achieved wisdom had they not supposed that they already possessed it.