The fame which is based on wealth or beauty is a frail and fleeting thing; but virtue shines for ages with undiminished lustre.

Harmony makes small things grow; lack of it makes great things decay.

Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.

Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.

The firmest friendship is based on an identity of likes and dislikes.

They envy the distinction I have won; let them therefore, envy my toils, my honesty, and the methods by which I gained it.

Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

Greedy for the property of others, extravagant with his own

All those who offer an opinion on any doubtful point should first clear their minds of every sentiment of dislike, friendship, anger or pity.

In my opinion it is less shameful for a king to be overcome by force of arms than by bribery.

Do as much as possible, and talk of yourself as little as possible

Like nature, women are the creative power behind all of creation.

Always keep a pray for a pure heart, there lies your peace.

There's nothing tantric about my particular view on life.

God, I hate the Germans.

There is a difference between giving into something and accepting it.

Good manners - the longer I live the more convinced I am of it - are a priceless insurance against failure and loneliness. And anyone can have them.

The Nobel Prize confers on an individual an authority which in economics no man ought to possess.

Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever-widening thought and action-Into that heaven of freedom, my father, let my country awake.

Onstage, I'm still wearing my fabulous, sheer dresses because I'm not that big.

When we say "the state," the state is We, it is we, it is the proletariat, it is the advanced guard of the working class.