“I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.”

It is the task of a good man to help those in misfortune.

Truly, to tell lies is not honorable; but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, to speak dishonorably is pardonable.

You must remember that no one lives a life free from pain and suffering.

Opinions have greater power than strength of hands.

Remember, nothing succeeds without toil.

What fate can be worse than to know we have no one but ourselves to blame for our misfortunes!

A wise man does not chatter with one whose mind is sick.

Quick decisions are unsafe decisions.

I am the child of Fortune, the giver of good, and I shall not be shamed. She is my mother; my sisters are the Seasons; my rising and my falling match with theirs. Born thus, I ask to be no other man than that I am.

You should not consider a man’s age but his acts.

Strike at a great man, and you will not miss.

Men of perverse opinion do not know the excellence of what is in their hands, till someone dash it from them.

If you are out of trouble, watch for danger. And when you live well, then consider the most your life, lest ruin take it unawares.

Let men be wise by instinct if they can, but when this fails be wise by good advice.

Now let the weeping cease; Let no one mourn again. These things are in the hands of God.

A fearful man is always hearing things.

Eve left Adam, to meet the Devil in private.

I never, ever cheated [in medical school]. I don’t condone cheating. But I would sometimes spread misinformation. This is a great tactic. Misinformation can be very important.

People do not expect to find chastity in a whorehouse. Why, then, do they expect to find honesty and humanity in government, a congeries of institutions whose modus operandi consists of lying, cheating, stealing, and if need be, murdering those who resist?

I am not a cheat and never have been.

When you’re in the public eye, it’s wrong to cheat on someone, unless you’re very careful. If you’re normal and no one’s going to know, then do it.

I never yet feared those men who set a place apart in the middle of their cities where they gather to cheat one another and swear oaths which they break.

I was unfaithful, I had affairs, I cheated.

A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love.