The first duty of government is to protect the powerless from the powerful.

If a man destroys the eye of another man, they shall destroy his eye.

If a man has knocked out the teeth of a man of the same rank, his own teeth shall be knocked out.

If a builder build a house for some one, and does not construct it properly, and the house which he built fall in and kill its owner, then that builder shall be put to death.

I am old, so give me your peace. Wisdom comes with age.

Mesopotamia will be one together as city-states we cannot create a full out war over nothing, this will be settled

if a builder builds a house and the house falls and kills some one in the house the owners may kill the builder.

My soul is exceedingly joyful.

They learned no compassion from their own anguish. Thus their suffering was wasted.

The queen who mended her stockings in prison must have looked every inch a queen and even more a queen than at sumptuous banquets and levees.

I can score 20 points if I want to, but that's not my desire.

And when you have it, what then? Some secrets are safer kept hidden. Some secrets are too dangerous to share, even with those you love and trust.

Faith never knows where it is being led, or it would not be faith. True faith is content to travel under sealed orders.

Success, however you judge what that even means, brings with it certain pressures.

I believe that it is possible for one to praise, without concern, any man after he is dead since every reason and supervision for adulation is lacking.

Would he have said he loved me? I would ask myself that for the rest of my life.

It often takes suffering and lost in order to remind us of how precious life is.