More will be accomplished, and better, and with more ease, if every man does what he is best fitted to do, and nothing else.

In an honest man there is always something of a child.

I fast for greater physical and mental efficiency

The three wishes of every man: to be healthy, to be rich by honest means, and to be beautiful.

To win over your bad self is the grandest and foremost of victories.

No evil can happen to a good man either in life or after death.

All knowledge is but remembrance.

Nothing ever is, everything is becoming.

To do injustice is the greatest of all evils.

Don't quarrel with your parents even if you are on the right.

If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.

Knowledge of the soul is the only universal truth and the only wisdom - all other knowledge is transient.

All learning is in the learner, not the teacher.

Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder.

A house that has a library in it has a soul.

The highest form of pure thought is in mathematics.

Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul

Better to complete a small task well, than to do much imperfectly.

Better to be unborn than untaught, for ignorance is the root of all misfortune.