“Knowledge must come through action.”

A wise player ought to accept his throws and score them, not bewail his luck.

Woman, to women silence is the best ornament.

Ignorance is a tough evil to conquer.

Wise thinkers prevail everywhere.

Stubbornness and stupidity are twins.

A short saying often contains much wisdom.

Time alone reveals the just man; but you might discern a bad man in a single day.

The tyrant is a child of pride.

Truth hates delay. (Veritas odit moras.)

Don’t you know that silence supports the accuser’s charge?

The soul that has conceived one wickedness can nurse no good thereafter.

Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.

Unwanted favours gain no gratitude.

A state is not a state if it belongs to one man.

If you try to cure evil with evil you will add more pain to your fate.

He who throws away a friend is as bad as he who throws away his life.

I can’t choose how i feel. But i can choose what I do about it.

We are free when our actions emanate from our total personality, when they express it, when they resemble it in the indefinable way a work of art sometimes does the artist.

Man is not free to refuse to do the thing which gives him more pleasure than any other conceivable action.

An evil deed is not redeemed by an evil deed in retaliation.

Action for which I become responsible, or for which my administration becomes responsible, shall be within the law.

Men often do things for women that they don’t want to do, so that women will do things for men that they don’t want to do.

The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate actions of its members.

You can’t get blase about something you haven’t done yet.