The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.

I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of wha. I do not know.

A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.

Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.

Rashness belongs to youth prudence to old age.