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

Our lives are but specks of dust falling through the fingers of time. Like sands of the hourglass, so are the days of our lives.

I am a Citizen of the World, and my Nationality is Goodwill.

Be as you wish to seem.

I will not yield to any man contrary to what is right, for fear of death, even if I should die at once for not yielding.

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

Be of good cheer about death and know this as a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death