Did you think I was immortal?

Friendship is the medicine for all misfortune; but ingratitude dries up the fountain of all goodness.

Reason must be the universal rule and guide; all things must be done according to reason without allowing oneself to be swayed by emotion.

Had Luther and Calvin been confined before they had begun to dogmatize, the states would have been spared many troubles.

First, all means to conciliate; failing that, all means to crush.

A single word has sometimes lost or won an empire.

If God forbade drinking, would He have made wine so good?

Nothing so upholds the laws as the punishment of persons whose rank is as great as their crime.

Give me six lines written by the most honorable person alive, and I shall find enough in them to condemn them to the gallows.

Deception is the knowledge of kings.

Never write a letter and never destroy one.

She must disappear for a time from the human surface, And sacrifice everything for this, To recreate herself from the depths of her world.

Man made borders not to limit himself, but to have something to cross.

I have always felt extremely weird. But I am very happy with my weirdnesses, and I want other people to be very happy with theirs.

Tax reform should happen rather quickly.

Africa is cruel...it takes your heart and grinds it into powdered stone - and no-one minds

Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language.

Don't feel entitled to anything you didn't sweat and struggle for.

Money is a great dignifier.

Just as you cannot receive without giving, so neither can you give without receiving.

Some rather seek up high Than dig and grind that inner truth