If you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be angry but go insane.

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.

Only a great man, believe me, and one whose excellence rises far above human failings, will not allow anything to be stolen from his own span of time, and his life is very long precisely because he has devoted to himself entirely any time that became available. None of it lay uncultivated and idle, none was under another man's control, for guarding it most jealously, he found nothing worth exchanging for his own precious time.

We are always complaining that our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end to them.

Who timidly requests invites refusal.

Vice is contagious, and there is no trusting the sound and the sick together.

Religion worships God, while superstition profanes that worship.