Everyone speaks well of his heart, but no one dares to say it of his dead.

A barking dog is often more useful than a sleeping lion.

Man is born free, and everywhere is is in chains

Diseases are Tax on the pleasure.

To understand everything is to forgive everything.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

Between grief and nothing I will take Grief.

Outside noisy, inside empty.

Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.

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

You can be erudite with knowledge of others; you can be wise only with your wisdom.

If your mouth turns into a knife, it will cut off yourlips.