Man's life is short; and therefore an honorable death is his immortality.

From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.

Pardon one offence, and you encourage the commission of many.

One ungrateful person does an injury to all needy people.

Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.

Would you have a great empire? Rule over yourself.

Tears gratify a savage nature, they do not melt it.

How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.

It matters not what you are thought to be, but what you are.

A tongue prone to slander is the proof of a depraved mind.

Never promise more than you can perform.

The mind, stretched to new dimensions by images, thoughts and ideas, can never return to its former shape.

Great stones they lay upon his chest until he plead aye or nay. They say he give them but two words. "More weight," he says. And died.

For the purpose of acquiring gain, everything else is pushed aside or thrown overboard, for example, as is philosophy by the professors of philosophy.

All the girls today want to be famous, but they haven't earned their spurs.

one doesn't measure friendship by length of time only; depth of time is just as valuable.

Whatever one cultivates, is what one becomes.

I was a sidelines child: never class president, never team captain, never the one with the most valentines in my box.

Compliments and praise, for their part, are tragic expressions of fulfilled needs

You can never have enough trophies. If there were ten to be won a year I'd want to win them all! That's not being greedy, it's just a natural thing.

I mean why should somebody go steal and break the law to get all they can when there's always some law where you can be legal and get it all anyway!