One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice.

Do it because it's in your heart. Not because you want something in return. Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.

See one promontory, one mountain, one sea, one river and see all.

An envious man waxeth lean with the fatness of his neighbors. Envy is the daughter of pride, the author of murder and revenge, the beginner of secret sedition and the perpetual tormentor of virtue. Envy is the filthy slime of the soul; a venom, a poison, or quicksilver which consumeth the flesh and drieth up the marrow of the bones.

One ought not to return injustice, nor do evil to anybody in the world, no matter what one may have suffered from them.

To live well and honorably and justly are the same thing.

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.