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The soul takes flight to the world that is invisible but there arriving she is sure of bliss and forever dwells in paradise.

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For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.

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Time is the moving image of eternity.

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It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.

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A library of wisdom, is more precious than all wealth, and all things that are desirable cannot be compared to it. Whoever therefore claims to be zealous of truth, of happiness, of wisdom or knowledge, must become a lover of books.

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In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.

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And then, at this stage, every dictator comes up with the notorious and typical demand: he asks the people for bodyguards to protect him, the people’s champion.

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Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and a provision in old age.

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He who approaches the temple of the Muses without inspiration, in the belief that craftsmanship alone suffices, will remain a bungler and his presumptuous poetry will be obscured by the songs of the maniacs.

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Your nature is the Buddha.

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It is impossible to improve the world if first the man does not improve.

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All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.

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Bad conduct soils the finest ornament more than filth.

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The only certainty is that nothing is certain.

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Purity of speech, of the mind, of the senses, and of a compassionate heart are needed by one who desires to rise to the divine platform.

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Antipater, in a letter written upon the death of Aristotle, the philosopher, observes, Amongst his other gifts he had that of persuasiveness”; and the absence of this in the character of Marcius made all his great actions and noble qualities unacceptable to those whom they benifited: pride and self-will the consort as Plato calls it of solitude made him insufferable. With the skill which Alcibiades on the contrary possessed to treat every one in the way most agreeable to him we cannot wonder that all his successes were attended with the most exuberant favour and honour; his very errors at time being accompanied by something of grace and felicity. And so in spite of great and frequent hurt that he had done the city he was repeatedly appointed to office and command; while Coriolanus stood in vain for a place which his great services had made his due. The one in spite of the harm he occasioned could not make himself hated nor the other with all the admiration he attracted succeed in being beloved by his countrymen.

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He who opts out for an uncertain thing leaving behind the certain things, loses that which is in possession and fails to get what is already perishable.

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It does not follow, that because a particular work of art succeeds in charming us, its creator also deserves our admiration.

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One is not exposed to danger who, even when in safety is always on their guard.

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A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation.

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A gift in season is a double favor to the needy.

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Life is nothing without friendship.

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We find that the Romans owed the conquest of the world to no other cause than continual military training, exact observance of discipline in their camps, and unwearied cultivation of the other arts of war.

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The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort.

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Anger begins in folly, and ends in repentance.

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When a wise man points at the moon the imbecile examines the finger.

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To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.

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To open his lips is crime in a plain citizen.

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He who flatters a man is his enemy. he who tells him of his faults is his maker.

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O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.

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I want you to be everything that’s you, deep at the center of your being.

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What is the benefit of fasting in our body while filling our souls with innumerable evils? He who does not play at dice, but spends his leisure otherwise, what nonsense does he not utter? What absurdities does he not listen to? Leisure without the fear of God is, for those who do not know how to use time, the teacher of wickedness.

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If one should desire to know whether a kingdom is well governed, if its morals are good or bad, the quality of its music will furnish the answer.

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The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal.

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It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.

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No prize-fighter can go with high spirits into the strife if he has
never been beaten black and blue; the only contestant who can confidently
enter the lists is the man who has seen his own blood, who has felt his
teeth rattle beneath his opponent’s fist, who has been tripped and felt
the full force of his adversary’s charge, who has been downed in bloody
but not it spirit, one who as often as he falls, rises again with greater
defiance than ever.

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Stand a little less between me and the sun.