The glory of wealth and of beauty is fleeting and frail; virtue is illustrious and everlasting.

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

Art is the business of selling fetishes, sacred relics once touched by genius: what the forger offers the gullible buyer is not art, it is "authenticity

To walk in the footsteps of the great, put on their shoes.

I tried the Atkins diet in the Seventies when pregnant with my son, as I didn't want to pile on the pounds. Now, so long as I'm healthy, I don't care what my scales say.

We are all special cases.

Well, I've never been in a touring rock band, it was all just high school and college, playing toga parties in frat houses.

Mission is not primarily an activity of the church, but an attribute of God.

Every libel, which is called famosus libellus, is made either against a private man, or against a public person. If it be against a private man, it deserves a severe punishment.

You make something. You give up expressing and start inventing.

When a man offers you his soul, do you give him change?

I've said it once and I'll say it a a hundred times, I'm forty-four years old.