It isn't important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.

The flowers of life are but illusions. How many fade away and leave no trace; how few yield any fruit and the fruit itself how rarely does it ripen!

None but the productive can be strong; and none but the strong can be free.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to loseliberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.

Too late is the medicine prepared, when the disease has strengthened by long delay.

Thedeeper the waters are, the more still they run.

What is well done is done soon enough.

What wesee depends mainly on what we look for.

Humoris the affectionate communication of insight.

Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important

COURAGE IS THE FLEEING FORWARD.