Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.

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.

But already it is time to depart, for me to die, for you to go on living; which of us takes the better course, is concealed from anyone except God.

In every one of us there are two ruling and directing principles, whose guidance we follow wherever they may lead; the one being an innate desire of pleasure; the other, an acquired judgment which aspires after excellence.

The greater the power that deigns to serve you, the more honor it demands of you.

When a woman is allowed to become a man's equal, she becomes his superior.

Some have courage in pleasures, and some in pains: some in desires, and some in fears, and some are cowards under the same conditions.