The greatest treasure you can leave your children is a sense of modesty and the advice to follow virtuous persons.

Fairly examined, truly understood, No man is wholly bad, nor wholly good.

Boy, you're like a horse. Just now sated with seed, You've come back to my stable, Yearning for a good rider, fine meadow, An icy spring, shady groves.

Not to be born at all would be the best thing for man.

He who mistrusts most should be trusted least.

Restrain thy mind, and let mildness ever attend thy tongue.

Even to a wicked man a divinity gives wealth, Cyrnus, but to few men comes the gift of excellence.

Surfeit begets insolence, when prosperity comes to a bad man.

Bright youth passes swiftly as a thought.

Ploutos , no wonder mortals worship you: You are so tolerant of their sins !

One finds many companions for food and drink, but in a serious business a man's companions are very few.

Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.

I have no sense of patriotism, but I do have a sense of community.

We sincerely ask the Beijing authorities across the Strait to view the election result from a positive perspective, to accept the democratic decision of the Taiwanese people.

It is better to be seen as cruel than foolish.

I'm very fast on teaching guys. Like, when I came over here, I only had two rehearsals with the band. I wondered when I first got here... but it sure came up great.

For every force charged by God, may He be exalted, with some business is an angel put in charge.

The best way to look at aging is to see it as an opportunity to leave what didn't work behind and step boldly into a brand new future.

The more angels we have in Silicon Valley, the better. We are funding innovation. We are funding the next Facebook, Google, and Twitter.

I am looking to get into the grime rap U.K. scene.

There is nothing more distressing or tiresome than a writer standing in front of an audience and reading his work.