Our safety is not in blindness but in facing our danger.

Honor women! they entwine and weave heavenly roses in our earthly life.

Posterity weaves no garlands for imitators.

The will of man is his happiness.

O jealousy! thou magnifier of trifles.

The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

An axe at home saves hiring a carpenter.

The lamp of genius burns quicker than the lamp of life.

Against stupidity the very gods Themselves contend in vain.

There is more to life than just existing and having a pleasant time.

He that is overcautious will accomplish little.

The humble sage, by virtue of true knowledge, sees with equal vision a learned and gentle brāhmaṇa, a cow, an elephant, a dog, and a dog-eater.

Life there was hard and it made people hard.

When your Knowledge is linked together it’s called Experience.

When something is finished, it cannot be possessed. Nothing can be possessed but the struggle.

She's somebody's mother boys you know For all she's aged and poor and slow.

Loving own country is to love peace

And then her heart changed, or at least she understood it; and the winter passed, and the sun shone upon her.

What are our priorities? First, the welfare, the survival of the people. Then, democratic norms and processes which from time to time we have to suspend.

There’s no such thing as ready,” she says. “There’s only willing.

Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind.