Quotes

Rascals are always sociable — more’s the pity!

Life is short, and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth.

Truth can wait, for it has a long life before it.

Reading is thinking with someone else’s head instead of one’s own.

What a man is contributes much more to his happiness than what he has.

Education is a restraint for the young, a consolation for the old, wealth for the poor and an ornament for the rich.

Of wild beasts the worst bite is the slanderer’s; of tame ones, the flatterer’s.

The sun too visits filthy places without being defiled.

The mind of a master does not stop on any one thing, even for an instant.

If you fix your eye on a single leaf, you will not see all the others.

Act without letting your mind be captured by thinking about every move.

If your mind stops at your opponent’s sword, you lose your freedom to act.