The majority is wicked.

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.

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

Be slow in considering, but resolute in action.

Hear much; speak little.

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.

Compassion for animals is intimately associated with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man.

From a young age, I was viciously competitive.

Here in Europe, I think that there are a lot of young people who forget the issues that were at stake during the Cold War.

Life is but the expression of spirit through matter. To make life manifest requires the union of spirit and body.

The United States of America is a threat to world peace.

Women have a connection to life force and nurturing. They have a connection that men don't have. It doesn't mean one's better or more important, it's just a difference.

The resolve to diet is most easily summoned on a full stomach.

If you [c]annot find your [h]eart's desire in your own backyard, you never lost it to begin with

If you keep my secret, this strawberry is yours.

You become a different writer when you approach a short story. When things are not always having to represent other things, you find real human beings begin to cautiously appear on your pages.