What a lot of things there are a man can do without.
It seems that God took away the minds of poets that they might better express His.
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing. And in knowing that you know nothing, that makes you the smartest of all.
There is no greater magnificence than to defeat oneself. That is the magnificence.
It is never right to do wrong or to requite wrong with wrong, or when we suffer evil to defend ourselves by doing evil in return.
One should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no matter how one has been mistreated by him.