You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.
Do not hold the delusion that your advancement is accomplished by crushing others.
The cultivation of the mind is a kind of food supplied for the soul of man.
In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods, than in giving health to men.
There never was a great soul that did not have some divine inspiration.
There are gems of thought that are ageless and eternal.
They who say that we should love our fellow-citizens but not foreigners, destroy the universal brotherhood of mankind, with which benevolence and justice would perish forever.
The more virtuous any man is, the less easily does he suspect others to be vicious.
They are eloquent who can speak low things acutely, and of great things with dignity, and of moderate things with temper.
Every evil in the bud is easily crushed: as it grows older, it becomes stronger.
Care should be taken that the punishment does not exceed the guilt; and also that some men do not suffer for offenses for which others are not even indicted.
A man would have no pleasures in discovering all the beauties of the universe, even in heaven itself, unless he had a partner to whom he might communicate his joys.
It is as hard for the good to suspect evil, as it is for the bad to suspect good.
Never injure a friend, even in jest.
No wise man ever thought that a traitor should be trusted.
If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.
Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.
While there’s life, there’s hope.
The more laws, the less justice.