A good memory is needed after one has lied.

The greater the effort, the greater the glory.

A liar is always lavish of oaths.

Self-love is the source of all our other loves.

Heaven often regulates effects by their causes, and pays the wicked what they have deserved.

When there is no peril in the fight there is no glory in the triumph.

The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.

Clemency is the noblest trait which can reveal a true monarch to the world.

To take revenge halfheartedly is to court disaster; either condemn or crown your hatred.

He who plays advisor is no longer ambassador.

Time is a great manager: it arranges things well.

Who have not led the holy lifenor riches won while young, they linger on as aged cranesaround a fished-out pond.

Money isn't everything, but it's right up there with oxygen.

Matt was the antidote to fear and trepidation. It was as if he’d become so acquainted with death that he could sit in its lap and ask it to tell him bedtime stories.

Taste goodness before you recommend it.

You make a film to distract people, to interest them, perhaps to make them think, perhaps to help them be a little less naive, a little better than they were.

Great fear, conformity, immorality: these are heavy burdens. They drain us of creative energy. And when we are drained of creative energy, we do not create. We procreate, but we do not create.

Successful people are not people without problems. They are people who have learned to solve their problems.

The augmentation of slaves weakens the states; and such a trade is diabolical in itself, and disgraceful to mankind.

The real trouble with this world of ours is not that it is an unreasonable one. The trouble is that it is nearly reasonable, but not quite.

The corporations are worried about their reputational damage and a lot of the social media inflicts that, but it's hard to measure it.