Any general statement is like a cheque drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.

Tofight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supremeexcellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

Concentration of wealth will never be a problem as long as we have those three great institutions for redistributing it: Taxes, wives, offspring.

To like and dislike the same thing, that is, indeed, friendship.

Myinterest is in the future because I'm going to be spending the rest of mylife there.

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mould of the body and mind entire.

Peoplewho are too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successfuland feel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation,or between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation…

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Conflictbuilds character. Crisis defines it.

An individual without information can't takeresponsibility. An individual with information can't help but takeresponsibility.

Wecould never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world.

If I giveyou an egg, and you give me an egg, we will each have one egg.