“The persecution of genius fosters its influence.”

The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.

They make a desert and call it peace.

It is of eloquence as of a flame; it requires matter to feed it, and motion to excite it; and it brightens as it burns.

An eminent reputation is as dangerous as a bad one.

It is a characteristic of the human mind to hate the man one has injured.

No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.

Eloquence wins its great and enduring fame quite as much from the benches of our opponents as from those of our friends.

A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.

Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.

Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.

It is a part of the nature of man to resist compulsion.

The love of fame is the last weakness which even the wise resign.

Every recreant who proved his timidity in the hour of danger, was afterwards boldest in words and tongue.

When the State is corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.

The changeful change of circumstances. [Lat., Varia sors rerum.]

Even honor and virtue make enemies, condemning, as they do, their opposites by too close a contrast.

The experience of the self is always a defeat for the ego.

Guys need attention. They need that nourishment, that little stroke of the ego that gets them by every now and then.

Failure comes from ego, greed, envy, fear, imitation. I have success not because I am smart, but because I am rational.

Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called Ego.

You’re best when you’re not in charge. The ego locks the muse.

The first half of life is devoted to forming a healthy ego, the second half is going inward and letting go of it.

The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it’s egotism.

The Ego is a veil between humans and God.