Is it not, then, better to be ridiculous and friendly than clever and hostile?

The nearest way to glory a shortcut, as it were is to strive to be what you wish to be thought to be.

By all implies marry if you get a great wife/husband, you are going to be pleased. If you get a bad a single, you are going to become a philosopher.

It seems that God took away the minds of poets that they might better express His.

Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds.

A system of morality that is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception that has nothing sound in it and nothing true.

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