“Know thyself and thou wilt know the universe.”

Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they please.

The soul of man is divided into three parts, intelligence, reason, and passion. Intelligence and passion are possessed by other animals, but reason by man alone.

Let no one persuade you by word or deed to do or say whatever is not best for you.

As long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seeds of murder and pain cannot reap the joy of love.

Salt is born of the purest parents: the sun and the sea.

Virtue is harmony.

Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free who cannot control himself.

A thought is an idea in transit.

Friends share all things.

Above all things, respect yourself.

Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.

Evolution is the Law of Life. Number is the Law of the Universe. Unity is the Law of God.

Declining from the public ways, walk in unfrequented paths.

Silence is better than unmeaning words.

The highest goal of music is to connect one’s soul to their Divine Nature, not entertainment.

He lived far from the gods, but in his mind he was at home with them.

Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.

The wise learn many things from their enemies.

A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.

The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.

I have not been that wise. Health I have taken for granted. Love I have demanded, perhaps too much and too often. As for money, I have only realized its true worth when I didn’t have it.

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

I gave my beauty and my youth to men. I am going to give my wisdom and experience to animals.