It is the natural disposition of all men to listen with pleasure to abuse and slander of their neighbour, and to hear with impatience those who utter praises of themselves.

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

It is not possible to found a lasting power upon injustice, perjury, and treachery.

All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.

A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true.

Nothing is easier than self-deceit.

Success has a great tendency to conceal and throw a veil over the evil deeds of men.

Nothing is so easy as to deceive one's self; for what we wish, that we readily believe; but such expectations are often inconsistent with the real state of things.

Do you remember that in classical times when Cicero had finished speaking, the people said, "How well he spoke" but when Demosthenes had finished speaking, they said, "Let us march.

The best protection for the people is not necessarily to believe everything people tell them.

We need money, for sure, Athenians, and without money nothing can be done that ought to be done.

And if I'm alone in bed, I will go to the window, look up at the sky, and feel certain that loneliness is a lie, because the Universe is there to keep me company.

When it comes to words Mamma says, "If they are not good, then maybe they should not be said.

Changing one's personality is as simple as stopping the earth's rotation

Only dogs know and respect their masters. This is a rare characteristic of men who secretly envy their masters and wish their downfall.

What delights us in visible beauty is the invisible.

Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.

too many maniacs not enough michelangelos

My biggest loss was the Olympics. I just can't forget losing. I never will

My veins do not end in me but in the unanimous blood of those who struggle for life, love, things, landscape and bread, the poetry of all.

Everyone has a natural right to choose that vocation in life which he thinks most likely gives him comfortable subsistence.