Refrain from following the example of those whose craving is for attention, not their own improvement.
Whatsoever has exceeded its proper limit is in an unstable position.
Let me therefore live as if every moment were to be my last.
It is not goodness to be better than the worst.
Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.
A man who examines the saddle and bridle and not the animal itself when he is out to buy a horse is a fool; similarly, only an absolute fool values a man according to his clothes, or according to his position, which after all is only something we wear like clothing.