 Man is a wingless animal with two feet and flat nails. |
| Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty. |
| The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery. |
| To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way. |
| The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile. |
| Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous. |
| They certainly give very strange names to diseases. |
| Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another. |
| Attention to health is life greatest hindrance. |
| When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself. |
| Your silence gives consent. |
| Courage is knowing what not to fear. Topics: Courage |
| I would fain grow old learning many things. |
| We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection. |
| States are as the men, they grow out of human characters. |
| A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers. |
| Man - a being in search of meaning. |
| For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories. |
| The measure of a man is what he does with power. |
| Philosophy is the highest music. |
