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Since I would rather make of him an able man than a learned man, I would also urge that care be taken to choose a guide with a well-made rather than a well-filled head.

The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.

The day of your birth leads you to death as well as to life.

The plague of man is boasting of his knowledge.

The sage says that all that is under heaven incurs the same law and the same fate.

The souls of emperors and cobblers are cast in the same mold...The same reason that makes us wrangle with a neighbor creates a war betwixt princes.

There is as much difference between us and ourselves as between us and others.

There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.

There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.

There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.