Evidently, quality of wits is more important than quantity.

Say not always what you know, but always know what you say.

What Roman power slowly built, an unarmed traitor instantly overthrew.

He who seeks to terrify others is more in fear himself.

Nature has given the opportunity of happiness to all, knew they but how to use it.

To do nothing evil is good; to wish nothing evil is better.

Whoever desires is always poor.

[Jews were] fomenting a general plague on the whole world.

No one is more miserable than the person who wills everything and can do nothing.

Power call achieve more by gentle means than by violence.

Faber est suae quisque fortunae. Each man is the architect of his own fate.

Political success in Athens seemed to depend on having a party, and there seemed now to be no party with whom an honorable man could connect himself.

I said I was "just tired", but I never told you what I was tired of.

At each increase of knowledge, as well as on the contrivance of every new tool, human labour becomes abridged.

We thought of ourselves as musical terrorists at shows - were weren't biting heads off bats, but we wanted to annoy and confront people.

Everything I do is going to be gangsta rap, street based, street oriented... I'm from Gary, Indiana, and everybody's damn near at the poverty level.

Everything I do is for my mom. Every time I step out there and try to get better, it's for her.

Love was just a word to me. Until you came along and gave it meaning.

Wise men have but few confidants, and cunning ones none.

The whole world yearns after freedom, yet each creature is in love with his chains; this is the first paradox and inextricable knot of our nature.

The difficulty, the ordeal, is to start.