“Destroy the seed of evil, or it will grow up to your ruin.”

It is with our passions, as it is with fire and water, they are good servants but bad masters.

Keep your place in life and your place will keep you.

It is easy to be brave at a safe distance.

Persuasion is more effective than force.

Slow and steady wins the race.

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

There can be no good fable with human beings in it. There can be no good fairy tale without them.

There can be no good fable with human beings in it. There can be no good fairy tale without them.

Better to starve free than be a fat slave.

Better to starve free than be a fat slave.

Do not attempt to hide things which cannot be hidden.

Please all, and you will please none.

Better beans and bacon in peace than cakes and ale in fear.

The more you want, the more you stand to lose.

In union, there is strength.

Don’t neglect the future in times of plenty, for tomorrow you may need what you wasted today.

Hate destroys the hater.

Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.

The use of force to achieve equality will destroy freedom, and the force, introduced for good purposes, will end up in the hands of people who use it to promote their own interests.

Difficulties in your life do not come to destroy you, but to help you realise your hidden potential and power, let difficulties know that you too are difficult.

We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them.

My object in life is to dethrone God and destroy capitalism.

The dark does not destroy the light; it defines it. It’s our fear of the dark that casts our joy into the shadows.

Any relationship I ever have will have to be hidden, or else it will be destroyed before it even starts.