A feeble body weakens the mind.
Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome.
Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.
Every man has a right to risk his own life for the preservation of it.
Childhood is the sleep of reason.
Base souls have no faith in great individuals.
Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.
Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.
Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well.
Force does not constitute right... obedience is due only to legitimate powers.
All of my misfortunes come from having thought too well of my fellows.
Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.
To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.
We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education.
We do not know what is really good or bad fortune.