To know how to dissimulate is the knowledge of kings.

Friendship is the medicine for all misfortune; but ingratitude dries up the fountain of all goodness.

Reason must be the universal rule and guide; all things must be done according to reason without allowing oneself to be swayed by emotion.

Had Luther and Calvin been confined before they had begun to dogmatize, the states would have been spared many troubles.

First, all means to conciliate; failing that, all means to crush.

A single word has sometimes lost or won an empire.

If God forbade drinking, would He have made wine so good?

Nothing so upholds the laws as the punishment of persons whose rank is as great as their crime.

Give me six lines written by the most honorable person alive, and I shall find enough in them to condemn them to the gallows.

Deception is the knowledge of kings.

Never write a letter and never destroy one.

If someone slaps you on one cheek, offer the other cheek also...but of course if you were able to stand soberly after the first slap.

One Fails Before One Perception...!

I have a very positive attitude in life. My insecurity, fear and need to know about tomorrow has fortunately eased. What is going to happen will happen anyway. So why break my head over it?

Just putting my uniform on keeps me going. Being able to get out there keeps me going. That's the best therapy.

I'm excited for my little girls. When they left the nest, I was excited because they were winging their way into life.

Children can be harsh judges when it comes to their parents, disinclined to grant clemency.

We believe that the Anarchists are real enemies of Marxism.

When I go down into the ground at last, as God is my judge, I pray my best-beloved may have better to say of me than, "He didn't hit me."

Education in the understanding of citizenship is a short-term affair if we are honest and earnest.

Friendship is so much healthier than other crutches -alcohol or TV or religious fanaticism. One healthy crutch shouldn't be against the rules.