Winning a lottery may prove to be bad luck.

Do just once what others say you can't do, and you will never pay attention to their limitations again.

Remember, the greater the opportunity, the fewer are those who see it.

Independent thinkers are usually geniuses or idiots and at times it's hard to tell which.

To enslave a people, give them money they didn't earn.

It's easier to have faith in yourself if you have faith in God.

To succeed in business, put the interest of the customer ahead of your own.

The decline and fall of a civilization is barely noticed by most of its citizens.

Love of country is nowhere the same as love of government.

Apparently there's nothing more dangerous than a religious criminal.

Hardly anything works out as well as we hope.

We live only for the hope of love.

I don’t argue

Our civil position should not depend on the tests and problems we go through

If one is forever cautious can one remain a human being?

The master of any craft is first a master of self, cooperating with innate intelligence within.

If I wished to punish a province, I would have it governed by philosophers.

The radical hostility, the deadly hostility against sensuality, is always a symptom to reflect on: it entitles us to suppositions concerning the total state of one who is excessive in this manner.

We think about time as something not to waste, not as something to invest.

The teacher of history's work should be, ideally, not simply a description of past cultures, but a performance of the culture in which we live and are increasingly taking our being.

Wouldn't it be wonderful if our mind growled like our stomach does when it is hungry?