The real compensation of a right action is inherent in having performed it.

What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.

Why does no one confess his sins? Because he is yet in them. It is for a man who has awoke from sleep to tell his dreams.

I am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use: my mind needs unpacking and the truths stored within must be turned over from time to time, to be ready when occasion demands.

Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough.

A dwarf is small even if he stands on a mountain; a colossus keeps his height, even if he stands in a well.

No man ever became wise by chance.