I have never had any [enemies] other than those of the state.

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.

Partnership means she is of equal rank to you, Raven', Obiakor continued...'Don't play games with her.

And you should not let yourself be confused in your solitude by the fact that there is something in you that wants to move out of it.

Life’s most rewarding forms of being: Being patient, and, being yourself.

Duty eats free will for breakfast.

I can't think of anything off the top of my head that seems more important than something designed to raise money to keep something going that keeps IV drug users from dying.

I've never had that fear of going against the grain.

And of Kanye's [West]? I have to say [I love] his heart. And I've always loved his legs.

The political is not compatible with the artistic, because the former, in order to prove, has to be one-sided.

I have a great deal of respect and admiration for people who put themselves on the line.

The moment that you impose your will on another person or animal, that's when we are allowed to say you have committed an ethical breach.