One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

Take care of the pieces well. The whole will take care of itself.

The ethos of redemption is realized in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires.

By three methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection which is noblest; second, by imitation, which is the easiest; and third, by experience, which is the bitterest.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom; justice; honor; duty; mercy; hope.

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

Above all be of single aim; have a legitimate and useful purpose, and devote yourself unreservedly to it.

In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.

If you buy what you do not need, you will need what you cannot buy.

Don't criticize what you can't understand.

Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.

Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.

It has seemed to be more necessary to have regard to the weight of words rather than to their number.

If you are a parent, open doors to unknown directions to the child so he can explore. Don't make him afraid of the unknown,give him support.

How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.