A free soul ought not to pursue any study slavishly, for nothing that is learned under compulsion stays with the mind.

But already it is time to depart, for me to die, for you to go on living; which of us takes the better course, is concealed from anyone except God.

How many things I can do without!

Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.

A man can no more make a safe use of wealth without reason than he can of a horse without a bridle.

In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.

The end of life is to be like unto God; and the soul following God, will be like unto Him; He being the beginning, middle, and end of all things.