He who tenders doubtful safety to those in trouble refuses it.

Now we are not merely to stick knowledge on to the soul: we must incorporate it into her; the soul should not be sprinkled with knowledge but steeped in it.

Do everything as in the eye of another.

To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.

He who forbids not sin when he may, commands it

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

Of war men ask the outcome, not the cause.