"If you want to be a great writer, write great books. If you want to be a great painter, paint great pictures. But if you want to be a great philosopher, be a great human being."

"First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do."

"If a man has a bad smell, he knows it not, but his neighbor knows it. So too with our faults."

"If you want to be a man of leisure, do not be a man of business. For if you are a man of business, you must be a man of trouble."

"Imagine a dog tied to a cart. If the dog wants to follow, it follows, adding its own will to the inevitable. But if the dog refuses to follow, it will be dragged along anyway."