Straightforwardness and simplicity are in keeping with goodness.

Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things.

He, who decides a case without hearing the other side, though he decides justly, cannot be considered just.

No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.

The deep waters of time will flow over us: only a few men of genius will lift a head above the surface, and though doomed eventually to pass into the same silence, will fight against oblivion and for a long time hold their own.

You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.

Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.