Life, Like a child, laughs shaking its rattle of death as it runs.

A book is a mirror; if an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to peer out.

To ease another's heartache is to forget one's own.

When regard for truth has been broken down or evenslightly weakened, all things will remain doubtful.

He approaches nearest to the gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.

Allthings are ready, if our minds be so.

Man is born free, and everywhere is is in chains

A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out

Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; Easy to govern, but impossible to enslave

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

Man show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they think laughable.

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