"Vana hobune, varsa mõtted."

"It is necessary therefore that the person who is to study, with any tolerable chance of profit, the principles of nob…"

"For many of my years — perhaps twelve — had passed away since my nineteenth, when, upon the reading of Cicero's Horte…"

"He, too, is good who takes advice from a wiser (person)."

"But he who neither thinks for himself, nor lays to heart another's wisdom, this is a useless man.’"

"Knowledge is indivisible. When people grow wise in one direction, they are sure to make it easier for themselves to g…"

"‘ He is the best of all who thinks for himself in all things."

"A fence to wisdom is silence."

"Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom."

"Wisdom is not absolute autocracy and independence of the soul, but obedience and subordination of the soul to higher …"