I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.
A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.