"Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant."
"Be as you wish to seem."
"Beware the barrenness of a busy life."
"He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature."
"It is not living that matters, but living rightly."
"Let him that would move the world first move himself."
"Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued."
"Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior."
"The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear."
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is a habit."
"Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence."
"Wisdom begins in wonder."
"Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live."
"If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it."
"A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true."
"Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for."
"False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil."
"From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate."
"Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us."
"The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be."
"I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance."
