“Only the educated are free.”
“God hath entrusted me with myself.”
“If you wish to be a writer; write!”
“No great thing is created suddenly.”
“Freedom is the right to live as we wish.”
“No man is free who is not a master of himself.”
“You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.”
“What will the world be quite overturned when you die?”
“All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.”
“First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.”
“Difficulties are things that show a person what they are.”
“Liars are the cause of all the sins and crimes in the world.”
“Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.”
“It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.”
“He who exercises wisdom exercises the knowledge which is about God.”
“A ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope.”
“First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.”
“Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.”
“Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.”
“He is a drunkard who takes more than three glasses though he be not drunk.”
“It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.”
“Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.”
“It is your own convictions which compels you; that is, choice compels choice.”
“Nature gave us one tongue and two ears so we could hear twice as much as we speak.”
“Practice yourself, for heaven's sake in little things, and then proceed to greater.”
“A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.”
“Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.”
“If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.”
“It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.”
“For it is not death or hardship that is a fearful thing, but the fear of death and hardship.”