“A man must not be without shame, for the shame of being without shame is shamelessness indeed.”

“The way of truth is like a great road. It is not difficult to know it. The evil is only that men will not seek it.”

“Only when there are things a man will not do is he capable of doing great things.”

“There are people dying from famine on the roads, and you do not issue the stores of your granaries for them. When people die, you say, 'it is not owing to me, it is owing to the year.' In what does...”

“The root of the kingdom is in the state. The root of the state is in the family. The root of the family is in the person of its head.”

“Friends are the siblings God never gave us.”

“When man will return to nature, nature will return to him.”

“The sky is an enormous man.”

“When the full-grown poet came,Out spake pleased Nature (the round impassive globe, with all its shows of day and night,) saying, He is mine;But out spake too the Soul of man, proud, jealous and unr...”

“I see your point. It irks you to see anyone at all who is able to work permitted to live without working. But why do you consider work a virtue?”

“Those who have wisdom have all:Fools with all have nothing.”

“Virtue is harder to be got than knowledge of the world; and, if lost in a young man, is seldom recovered.”