Thy soul is by vile fear assailed, which oft so overcasts a man, that he recoils from noblest resolution, like a beast at some false semblance in the twilight gloom.

Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.

You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs.

Conscience, that boon companion who sets a man free under the strong breastplate of innocence, that bids him on and fear not.

Fame is not won on downy plumes nor under canopies; the man who consumes his days without obtaining it leaves such mark of himself on earth as smoke in air or foam on water.

O foolish anxiety of wretched man, how inconclusive are the arguments which make thee beat thy wings below!

I am searching for that which every man seeks-peace and rest.

Be like a solid tower whose brave height remains unmoved by all the winds that blow; the man who lets his thoughts be turned aside by one thing or another, will lose sight of his true goal, his mind sapped of its strength.

If a thief helps a poor man out of the spoils of his thieving, we must not call that charity.