One promises much, to avoid giving little.

Lazy people are always anxious to be doing something.

We are so presumptuous that we think we can separate our personal interest from that of humanity, and slander mankind without compromising ourselves.

The shortness of life cannot dissuade us from its pleasures, nor console us for its pains.

The young suffer less from their own errors than from the cautiousness of the old.

You are not born for fame if you don't know the value of time.

The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.

The art of pleasing is the art of deception.

Action makes more fortune than caution.

Courage is adversity's lamp.

Most people grow old within a small circle of ideas, which they have not discovered for themselves. There are perhaps less wrong-minded people than thoughtless.

An introvert talks more than an extrovert because when the mouth is closed, the mind is opened.

Freedom from the thinking mind is our underlying goal for most of human activity.

The contest of world's tallest skyscraper is a childish thing. Whereas with similar budget, they could construct flying building.

Britain is not in the single currency, and we're not going to be. But we all need the eurozone to have the right governance and structures to secure a successful currency for the long term.

So long as your desire to explore is greater than your desire to not screw up, you're on the right track.

What this means is that we shouldn't abbreviate the truth but rather get a new method of presentation.

The generality of virtuous women are like hidden treasures, they are safe only because nobody has sought after them.

There are many people for whom 'thinking' necessarily means identifying with existing trends.

No matter how many people you kill, using a machine gun in battle is not a war crime because it does not cause unnecessary suffering; it simply performs its job horrifyingly well.

People still do not understand that a live fish is more valuable than a dead one, and that destructive fishing techniques are taking a wrecking ball to biodiversity.