Live amongst people in such a manner that if you die they weep over you and if you are alive they crave for your company.

Virtue is insufficient temptation.

Man is a wonderful creature; he sees through the layers of fat (eyes), hears through a bone (ears) and speaks through a lump of flesh (tongue).

He who is greedy is disgraced; he who discloses his hardship will always be humiliated; he who has no control over his tongue will often have to face discomfort.

Valour needs first strength, then a weapon.

It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thoughts or action we should remember our dying and try so to live, that our death brings no pleasure on the world.

Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

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

Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.