I choose the likely man in preference to the rich man I want a man without money rather than money without a man.

He who commands the sea has command of everything.

I choose the likely man in preference to the rich man; I want a man without money rather than money without a man.

I cannot fiddle, but I can make a great state from a little city.

The Athenians govern the Greeks; I govern the Athenians; you, my wife, govern me; your son governs you.

I never learned how to tune a harp, or play upon a lute; but I know how to raise a small and obscure city to glory and greatness...whereto all kindreds of the earth will pilgrim.

Strike, if you will, but listen.

I have with me two gods, Persuasion and Compulsion.

May I never sit on a tribunal where my friends shall not find more favor from me than strangers.

Wenn jemand starb, dem du dein Herz geschenkt hattest, nahm er es dann mit?

Education is the key to progress and success for human beings and for a nation.

Once you let the truth loose it is like setting a fire that you can't stop.

All the successful personalities had one common element, they all liked reading books.

It isn't a secret, unless keeping it hurts.

One may say the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.

I don't care what you think, your junk does not have special abilities.

The ability to workshop in stand-up comedy is incomparable to any art form, in my opinion.

Vanity makes people ridiculous, pride odious, and ambition terrible.

Social democracy.. is only the advance guard of the proletariat, a small piece of the total working masses; blood from their blood, and flesh from their flesh.