Falling down is not a failure. Failure comes when you stay where you have fallen.

There is no possession more valuable than a good and faithful friend.

When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.

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.

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

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

Flattery is like a painted armor; only for show.