Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.

It takes more than just a good looking body. You've got to have the heart and soul to go with it.

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.

Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig. I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.

We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.

Only the educated are free

When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.

Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.

It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.