A friend should be like money, tried before being required, not found faulty in our need.

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.

The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.

An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.

When Demosthenes was asked what was the first part of Oratory, he answered, "Action," and which was the second, he replied, "action," and which was the third, he still answered "Action.

Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.

The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits.

Barba non facit philosophum

To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.

Time is the wisest of all counselors.

No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.

Life is short. Im gonna be happy with mine.

The man of meditation is the man who wastes no time, scatters no energy, misses no opportunity.

An aesthetic movement with a revolutionary dynamism and no popular appeal should proceed quite otherwise than by public scandal, publicity stunt, noisy expulsion and excommunication.

Castles in the air cost a vast deal to keep up.

When you don't show up as who you are, people fall in love with who you're not. Then when they find out who you are, that's when they leave.

A man can't be in the space where there is feminine rage and bitterness. He doesn't know how to navigate it.

Communication is merely an exchange of information, but connection is an exchange of our humanity.

What we do for others has a direct impact on how we feel about ourselves.

I shall never fear or avoid things of which I do not know.

Of the people, by the people, for the people.