Dignity does not come in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Education is the best provision for the journey to old age.
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit.
Wit is educated insolence.
Nature does nothing uselessly.
This is the reason why mothers are more devoted to their children than fathers: it is that they suffer more in giving them birth and are more certain that they are their own.
It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.
Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.
Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.
The complete is more than the sum of its pieces.
The gods too are fond of a joke.
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
