Regard your good name as the richest jewel yoou can possibly be possessed of.

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.

Man must rise above the Earth - to the top of the atmosphere and beyond - for only thus will he fully understand the world in which he lives.

Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.

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.

There is no greater magnificence than to defeat oneself. That is the magnificence.

In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.