Every action has its pleasures and its price.

The perfect human being is all human beings put together, it is a collective, it is all of us together that make perfection.

Young people nowadays love luxury; they have bad manners and contempt for authority. They show disrespect for old people... contradict their parents, talk constantly in front of company, gobble their food and tyrannize their teachers.

Regard your good name as the richest jewel you can possibly be possessed of - for credit is like fire; when once you have kindled it you may easily preserve it, but if you once extinguish it, you will find it an arduous task to rekindle it again. The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

I don't care what people say about me. I do care about my mistakes.

What most counts is not merely to live, but to live right.

Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.

Wisest is he who knows he knows not.

The heart of the person before you is a mirror. See there your own form.

Follow the argument wherever it leads.

Go wherever the facts lead.

Only the extremely ignorant or the extremely intelligent can resist change.

It is not living that matters, but living rightly.

The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.

The soul, like the body, accepts by practice whatever habit one wishes it to contact.

The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Be as you wish to seem.

Slanderers do not hurt me because they do not hit me.