Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves nor their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.
Necessity, who is the mother of our invention.
Courage is a kind of salvation.
Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several, he will fail to achieve distinction in any.
Love - a grave mental disease.
We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can; and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible; and to become like him is to become holy, just, and wise.
