To know how to free oneself is nothing: the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it

... That may appear as the truth to one personwill often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry theseeker. Where there is honest effort, it will be realized that what appearedto be different truths are like the countless and apparen

The laws of life are founded on necessity, its charms on the non-essentials.

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

To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat.

Power comes from sincere service

Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Melancholy is the joy of being said.

A clever person turns great troubles into little ones andlittle ones into none at all.

Life is no brief candle- it's a splendid torch!

The worst form of injustice is pretended justice.