Why should we pay so much attention to what the majority thinks?

I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.

When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.

The difficulty, my friends, is not in avoiding death, but in avoiding unrighteousness; for that runs faster than death.

A man should inure himself to voluntary labor, and not give up to indulgence and pleasure, as they beget no good constitution of body nor knowledge of mind.

Do not go through life like leaf blown from here to there believing whatever you are told.

He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.