While you teach, you learn.

There is nothing more miserable and foolish than anticipation.

One must take all one's life to learn how to leave, and what will perhaps make you wonder more, one must take all one's life to learn how to die.

Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.

To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.

The greatest power of ruling consists in the exercise of self-control.

Let us not seek our disease out of ourselves; 'tis in us, and planted in our bowels; and the mere fact that we do not perceive ourselves to be sick, renders us more hard to be cured.