A prosperous fool is a grievous burden.

He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.

In war, truth is the first casualty.

Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.

There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.

Zeus, first cause, prime mover; for what thing without Zeus is done among mortals?

It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside of calamity to give advice and to rebuke the sufferer.

Better to die on your feet than live on your knees.

The air is Zeus, Zeus earth, and Zeus the heaven, Zeus all that is, and what transcends them all.

For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight.

By polluting clear water with slime you will never find good drinking water.

Always be yourself, unless you can be Batman, always be Batman.

I need to keep traveling, being a gypsy, having experiences and writing about them.

As is the case with all original creators, Charles Chaplin's working life was an amalgam of arrogant self-confidence and deflating self-doubt.

The fate of you, the aristocracy of industry, will be as the fate of the aristocracy of land if you do not show that you have some humanity still among you.

But history is a faithless teller whose cruel recourse to hindsight makes fools of its actors.

If you can't write freely and if you can't speak freely in your country, you can be sure that you are living in a very primitive country!

Before you do something to help, your presence already can bring some relief.

His goodness stands approved,Unchanged from day to day;I'll drop my burden at His feet,And bear a song away.

So that every Crime is a sinne; but not every sinne a Crime.

The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.