Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other; yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely; for science is but one.

Finally, everybody agrees that no one pursuit can be successfully followed by a man who is preoccupied with many things-eloquence cannot, nor the liberal studies-since the mind, when distracted, takes in nothing very deeply, but rejects everything that is, as it were, crammed into it. There is nothing the busy man is less busied with than living: there is nothing that is harder to learn.

He who begs timidly courts a refusal.

Look at the stars lighting up the sky: no one of them stays in the same place.

Shall I tell you what philosophy holds out to humanity? Counsel...You are called in to help the unhappy.

No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Reason wishes that the judgement it gives be just; anger wishes that the judgement it has given seem to be just.