A large library is apt to distract rather than to instruct the learner; it is much better to be confined to a few authors than to wander at random over many.

If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.

It is not goodness to be better than the worst.

To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.-

He, who will not pardon others, must not himself expect pardon.

Nobody will keep the thing he hears to himself, and nobody will repeat just what he hears and no more.

Do what you should, not what you may.