“Man is a goal-seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.”

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

Bad men are full of repentance.

The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.

All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.

Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.

Quality is not an act, it is a habit.

It is a life which involves effort and is not spent in amusement.

Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.

All men by nature desire knowledge.

Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.

Where your talents and the needs of the world cross, there lies your vocation.

Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach.

All Earthquakes and Disasters are warnings; there’s too much corruption in the world.

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

We must be neither cowardly nor rash but courageous.

Dignity is a matter which concerns only mankind.

Dignity is a matter which concerns only mankind.

Dignity is a matter which concerns only mankind.

I’ve often said that my rats have taught me much more than I’ve taught them.

I tell you the truth, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven.

Women and elephants never forget.

I don’t run with wolves, the wolves run with me.

When a man appreciates only eating and sleeping, what excellence has he over the reptiles?