Happiness comes to them who bring happiness to others.

He who sows the ground with care and diligence acquires a greater stock of religious merit than he could gain by the repetition of ten thousand prayers

Excessive liberty and excessive servitude are equally dangerous, and produce nearly the same effect.

When you are in doubt abstain.

You shall love peace as a means to new wars - and the short peace more than the long.

Do not lose joy in life as you grow old in years. Let not your 'joie de vivre be crushed under the weight of years.

If one would have a friend, then must one also be willing to wage war for him: and in order to wage war, one must be capable of being an enemy.