Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.

If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.

There are a great many of these accusers, and they have been accusing me now for a great many years, and what is more, they approached you at the most impressionable age, when some of you were children or adolescents; and literally won their case by default, because there was no one to defend me.

Young people nowadays love luxury; they have bad manners and contempt for authority. They show disrespect for old people... contradict their parents, talk constantly in front of company, gobble their food and tyrannize their teachers.

Malice drinketh up the greater part of its own poison.

By means of beauty all beautiful things become beautiful.

Obscurity is dispelled by augmenting the light of discernment, not by attacking the darkness.