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

Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other; yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely; for science is but one.

What nature requires is obtainable, and within easy reach. It is for the superfluous we sweat.

Life's like a play; it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.

No man ever became wise by chance.

We should conduct ourselves not as if we ought to live for the body, but as if we could not live without it.

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