Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions, but those who kindly reprove thy faults.

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

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.

In every sort of danger there are various ways of winning through, if one is ready to do and say anything whatever.

One cannot come closer to the gods than by bringing health to his Fellow Man.

Wars and revolutions and battles are due simply and solely to the body and its desires.

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.