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

That day which you fear as being the end of all things is the birthday of your eternity.

The proper amount of wealth is that which neither descends to poverty nor is far distant from it.

Precepts are like seeds; they are little things which do much good; if the mind which receives them has a disposition, it must not be doubted that his part contributes to the generation, and adds much to that which has been collected.

We have not to talk, but to steer the vessel.

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

The mind is a matter over every kind of fortune; itself acts in both ways, being the cause of its own happiness and misery.