Even to a wicked man a divinity gives wealth, Cyrnus, but to few men comes the gift of excellence.

Fairly examined, truly understood, No man is wholly bad, nor wholly good.

Boy, you're like a horse. Just now sated with seed, You've come back to my stable, Yearning for a good rider, fine meadow, An icy spring, shady groves.

Not to be born at all would be the best thing for man.

He who mistrusts most should be trusted least.

Restrain thy mind, and let mildness ever attend thy tongue.

The greatest treasure you can leave your children is a sense of modesty and the advice to follow virtuous persons.

Surfeit begets insolence, when prosperity comes to a bad man.

Bright youth passes swiftly as a thought.

Ploutos , no wonder mortals worship you: You are so tolerant of their sins !

One finds many companions for food and drink, but in a serious business a man's companions are very few.

Find out the needs of the people you are ministering to and help them overcome their fears

And there's you. You're just beautiful. Effortlessly beautiful, like nature. You have the trinity of beauty: a beautiful heart, a beautiful mind, and a beautiful soul.

The ocean sleeps. The ocean wakes. And the waking of the ocean is the waking of the soul. At midnight wakefulness springs from within the ocean.

Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.

It is the duty of government to make it difficult for people to do wrong, easy to do right.

Don’t accept the habitual as a natural thing. In times of disorder, of organized confusion, of de-humanized humanity, nothing should seem natural. Nothing should seem impossible to change.

We injure mysteries, which are matters of faith by any attempt at explanation in order to make them matters of reason.

The grave is sooner cloy'd than men's desire.

Educate yourself, welcome life's messiness, read Chekhov, avoid becoming an architect at all costs.

I don't think the religion makes the woman; I think the woman is who she is within the religion.