“Nothing has more strength than dire necessity.”

The man is happiest who lives from day to day and asks no more, garnering the simple goodness of life.

Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes angry.

Enough is abundance to the wise.

Surely again, to heal men’s wounds by music’s spell.

Some wisdom you must learn from one who’s wise.

Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses his past and is dead for the future.

It’s the wise man who stays home when he’s drunk.

We must take care of our minds because we cannot benefit from beauty when our brains are missing.

Let a man accept his destiny, No pity and no tears.

Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.

Authority is never without hate.

Money is far more persuasive than logical arguments.

For in other ways a woman is full of fear, defenseless, dreads the sight of cold steel; but, when once she is wronged in the matter of love, no other soul can hold so many thoughts of blood.

I would rather die on my feet than live on my knees.

The language of truth is simple.

Anger exceeding limits causes fear and excessive kindness eliminates respect.

We put a lot more value, or at least I personally put a lot more value, on the creative values and creative challenges of something than the commercial necessities.

To make a contented slave it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken the moral and mental vision and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason.

One essential object is to choose that arrangement which shall tend to reduce to a minimum the time necessary for completing the calculation.

Beauty has no obvious use; nor is there any clear cultural necessity for it. Yet civilization could not do without it.

It is necessary to create hope for tomorrow for farmers and businesses.

Educate the children and it won’t be necessary to punish the men.

Real loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone.

Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.