“In the lack of judgment great harm arises, but one vote cast can set right a house.”

Better to die on your feet than live on your knees.

The reward of suffering is experience.

When a man’s willing and eager the god’s join in.

There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart’s controls.

We spoil ourselves with scruples long as things go well.

Arrogance is truly the child of impiety, but from health of soul comes happiness, dear to all, much prayed for.

I have not need to promise what I cannot do.

A world of wealth is trash if men are wanting; men who have no wealth never find fortune smiling as their strength deserves.

We should know what is true before we break our rage.

It’s not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.

The act of evil breeds others to follow, young sins in its own likeness.

The act of evil breeds others to follow, young sins in its own likeness.

Wiles and deceit are female qualities.

Wiles and deceit are female qualities.

Who, except the gods, can live time through forever without any pain?

In every enterprise is no greater evil than bad companionship.

First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, ‘I believe,’ three times.

All the things that truly matter, beauty, love, creativity, joy and inner peace arise from beyond the mind.

Pleasure is always derived from something outside you, whereas joy arises from within.

Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.

Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger, portion of truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.

We know that from time to time, there arise among human beings, people who seem to exude love as naturally as the sun gives out heat.

Whenever the need for some pretense of communication arises, those who profit from our oppression call upon us to share our knowledge with them

Whence arises all that order and beauty we see in the world?