It is better to make a mistake with full force of your being than to carefully avoid mistakes with a trembling spirit.

We can do nothing without the body, let us always take care that it is in the best condition to sustain us.

Improve yourself by other men's writings thus attaining effortlessly what they acquired through great difficulty.

So you would rather suffer an injustice than do an injustice?

Listen not to a tale-bearer or slanderer, for he tells thee nothing out of good-will; but as he discovereth of the secrets of others, so he will of thine in turn.

The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world, is to be in reality what we would appear to be, all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice and experience of them.