Such as the chain of causes we call Fate, such is the chain of wishes: one links on to another; the whole man is bound in the chain of wishing for ever.

You must live for another if you wish to live for yourself.

Everyone rushes his life on, and suffers from a yearning for the future and a boredom with the present. But that man who devotes every hour to his own needs, who plans every day as if it were his last, neither longs for nor fears tomorrow.

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

Its harder for people to seek retirement from themselves than from the law

The highest duty and the highest proof of wisdom - that deed and word should be in accord.

It is a tedious thing to be always beginning life; they live badly who always begin to live.