Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.

Beware of greed and remain pure and just. Restrain yourself from every vice. He who cannot restrain himself, how will he be able to teach others restraint?

When one does not have what one wants, one must want what one has.

It is evident that skepticism, while it makes no actual change in man, always makes him feel better.

Cleverness, after all, has its limitations. Its mechanical judgments and clever remarks tend to prove inaccurate with passing time, because it doesn't look very deeply into things to begin with.

Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.