Let the punishment be equal with the offence. [Lat., Noxiae poena par esto.]

Politicians are not born; they are excreted.

Poor is the nation that has no heroes, but poorer still is the nation that having heroes, fails to remember and honor them.

It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.

Read at every wait; read at all hours; read within leisure; read in times of labor; read as one goes in; read as one goest out. The task of the educated mind is simply put: read to lead.

We learn nothing from history except that we learn nothing from history.

It is not enough to acquire wisdom, it is necessary to employ it.

Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.

Nothing is more unreliable than the populace, nothing more obscure than human intentions, nothing more deceptive than the whole electoral system.

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

The art of growing old is the art of being regarded by the oncoming generations as a support and not as a stumbling-block...

I take no pride in hopeless longing; I wouldn't hold a stillborn aspiration. I'd want to have it, to make it, to live it.

In any war, people will pay the price.

I was a pebble. I was a leaf. I was the jagged branch of a tree. I was nothing to them and they were everything to me.

If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.

There is no easy or difficult; only familiar and unfamiliar.

In Tereza's eyes, books were the emblems of a secret brotherhood

Only in chaos are we conceivable.

If we don't consciously plant the seeds of what we want in the gardens of our minds we'll end up with weeds.

If you wanna maintain 20 percent of the world's income with 4 percent of the world's people, you gotta first of all have more shared prosperity and shared growth.