If there is neither excessive wealth nor immoderate poverty in a nation, then justice may be said to prevail.

Avoid doing what you would blame others for doing.

I did not become a father because I am fond of children.

The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself.

The past is certain, the future obscure.

Nothing is more active than thought, for it travels over the universe, and nothing is stronger than necessity for all must submit to it.

Suretyship (Dogma) is the precursor of ruin.