Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence..

In order to seek one's own direction, one must simplify the mechanics of ordinary, everyday life..

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil..

Hereditary honors are a noble and a splendid treasure to descendants..

Let no one ignorant of Mathematics enter here..

The wisest of you men is he who has realized, like Socrates, that in respect of wisdom he is really worthless..

For as there are misanthropists, or haters of men, there are also misologists, or haters of ideas, and both spring from the same cause, which is igno….

One cannot make a slave of a free person, for a free person is free even in a prison..

The measure of a man is what he does with power..

I am about to die, and that is the hour in which men are gifted with prophetic power..

A good decision is based on knowledge, and not on numbers..

People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die..

Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths a….

If a man says that it is right to give every one his due, and therefore thinks within his own mind that injury is due from a just man to his enemies ….

Those who reproach injustice do so because they are afraid not of doing it but of suffering it..

Integrity is your destiny-it is the light that guides your way..

The heaviest penalty for deciding to engage in politics is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself..

Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens..

Only a philosopher's mind grows wings, since its memory always keeps it as close as possible to those realities by being close to which the gods are ….

Putting the shoe on the wrong foot..

Follow your dream as long as you live, do not lessen the time of following desire, for wasting time is an abomination of the spirit..