Deos fortioribus adesse. The gods support those who are stronger.

The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.

Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.

Men are more ready to repay an injury than a benefit, because gratitude is a burden and revenge a pleasure

The lust for power, for dominating others, inflames the heart more than any other passion.

If you would know who controls you see who you may not criticise.

In valor there is hope.

When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.

Traitors are hated even by those whom they prefer.

The most seditious is the most cowardly.

It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.

If it’s going to be a world with no time for sentiment, it’s not a world that I want to live in.

Some of us think holding on makes us strong but sometimes it is letting go.

When you have a different name, people just kind of take the liberty to spell it how they want.

True, the movement for woman's rights has broken many old fetters, but it has also forged new ones.

I wish, in some ways, I was the type of comedian who could do something blistering and topical, but I'm the guy who gets stuck in the revolving door and thinks I should write about that.

It is one of my favorite thoughts that God manifests Himself to men in all the wise, good, humble, generous, great, and magnanimous men.

Saying this, he turned his head toward the window as if he were trying to solve the problems of human existence by concentrating on the beauty of the universe.

I have not intended to denigrate or hurt the beliefs of anyone through my art.

If a religious person says "No, no, no" and they won't listen to science, it makes me think that they don't have faith in their own religion.

But every single damn thing matters! Only we don't realize. We just tell ourselves that art runs on one track and life, our lives, on another, and we don't realize that's a lie.