If you don't want to slip up tomorrow, speak the truth today.
The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.
There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.
How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.
I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.
A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
Choose rather to be strong of soul than strong of body.
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting.
He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
When prosperity comes, do not use all of it.
Colorless green ideas sleep furiously
Do not reveal what you have thought upon doing, but by wise council keep it secret being determined to carry it into execution.
If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.
A man is literally what he thinks.
If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.
Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.
I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.
Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.
Men become wise just as they become rich, more by what they save than by what they receive.