The really important thing is not to live, but to live well. And to live well meant, along with more enjoyable things in life, to live according to your principles.

Whenever a number of individuals have a common name, we assume them to have also a corresponding idea or form.

Through your rags I see your vanity.

The really important thing is not to live, but to live well. And to live well meant, along with more enjoyable things in life, to live according to your principles.

The soul then, as being immortal, and having been born again many times, and having seen all things that exist, whether in this world or in the world below, has knowledge of them all . . . all enquiry and all learning is but recollection.

A free soul ought not to pursue any study slavishly, for nothing that is learned under compulsion stays with the mind.

The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.