The greatest misfortune of all is not to be able to bear misfortune.

It is better to decide a difference between enemies than friends, for one of our friends will certainly become an enemy and one of our enemies a friend.

Make wisdom your provision for the journey from youth to old age, for it is a more certain support than all other possessions.

Be slow in considering, but resolute in action.

Hear much; speak little.

The majority is wicked.

What is man's greatest bane? His brother man alone.

Monarch, thou wishest to cover thyself with glory; be the first to submit to the laws of thy empire.

It becomes not a law-maker to be a law-breaker.

He who will lose a present good for one in expectation hath some wit, but a small store of wisdom.

Some, by admiring other men's virtues, become enemies to their own vices.

Fall seven times, Stand up eight

He's a contradiction and that's why he's so perfect.

People will kill you over time, and how they'll kill you is with tiny, harmless phrases, like 'be realistic.'

When I was a little kid I wanted to be an artist or a painter. But once I got into boxing, all I wanted was to box.

I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence.

I believe every single one of us has a choice in life and that we can all choose to live out whatever our exceptional minds dream up.

Christ lived the life we could not live and took the punishment we could not take to offer the hope we cannot resist.

Our most merciless enemy is our past.

At the end of the day, flirting is a pretty universal language. Americans are more direct. British people are more indirect about everything

The pupil wants not so much to learn, as to learn how to learn.