It is easy enough to arouse in a listener a desire for what is honorable; for in every one of us nature has laid the foundations or sown the seeds of the virtues. We are born to them all, all of us, and when a person comes along with the necessary stimulus, then those qualities of the personality are awakened, so to speak, from their slumber.

How much longer are you going to be a pupil? From now on do some teaching as well.

Golden roofs break men's rest.

The intellect must not be kept at consistent tension, but diverted by pastimes.... The mind must have relaxation, and will rise stronger and keener after recreation.

Money has never yet made anyone rich.

That loss is most discreditable which is caused by negligence.

To strive with an equal is dangerous; with a superior, mad; with an inferior, degrading.