When brothers agree, no fortress is so strong as their common life.

The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue.

There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself - an enemy who has lost his temper and a friend who loves you dearly.

Quarrels often arise in marriages when the bridal gifts are excessive.

It is better to fall in with crows than with flatterers; for in the one case you are devoured when dead, in the other case while alive.

As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.

It is a royal privilege to do good and be ill spoken of.

Royalty does good and is badly spoken of.

Not to unlearn what you have learned is the most necessary kind of learning.

Pay attention to your enemies, for they are the first to discover your mistakes.

It is better to fall among crows than flatterers; for those devour only the dead - these the living.

...Hope is a ridiculous failing that we need to harbour in order to lead a serene life…

I have nothing against respecting people who lived before, but we have no responsibility toward them.

In war, whichever side may call itself the victor, there are no winners, but all are losers.

There is a powerful need for people to feel that gust of hope rise up again.

I consider myself a very driven and intense fighter.

Jehovah had nothing to say to Moses and the others about the care of the planet. He had plenty to say about tribal loyalty and conquest.

A little and good fills the trencher.

Woman is born free and lives equal to man in her rights. Social distinctions can be based only on the common utility.

Everything you live through helps to make you the person you are now.

I can conceive of no greater, more romantic and interesting adventure than to undertake to live like Jesus in this complicated day.