Miseram pacem vel bello bene mutari. Even war is preferable to a shameful peace.

The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.

Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.

Men are more ready to repay an injury than a benefit, because gratitude is a burden and revenge a pleasure

The lust for power, for dominating others, inflames the heart more than any other passion.

If you would know who controls you see who you may not criticise.

In valor there is hope.

When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.

Traitors are hated even by those whom they prefer.

The most seditious is the most cowardly.

It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.

There is no God but Allah and Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah.

Nothing softens the heart like a song.

I think that I failed by not studying more, and praying more, and spending more time with my family.

Ah fair Zenocrate, divine Zenocrate, Fair is too foul an epithet for thee.

By being inattentive to the needs of others, inevitably we end up harming them.

The bustle in a house The morning after death Is solemnest of industries Enacted upon earth,-- The sweeping up the heart, And putting love away We shall not want to use again Until eternity

We ought to fear a man who hates himself, for we are at risk of becoming victims of his anger and revenge. Let us then try to lure him into self-love.

The United States in particular and the West in general should be feeling a little embarrassed about all that lecturing we did to the Third World.

We have to replace beauty, which is a cultural concept, with goodness, which is a humanist concept.

Science without philosophy, facts without perspective and valuation, cannot save us from havoc and despair. Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.