“It is best for the wise man not to seem wise.”

When a man takes the road to destruction, the gods help him along.

Wrong must not win by technicalities.

For somehow this is tyranny’s disease, to trust no friends.

For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight.

But when once the earth has sucked up a dead man’s blood, there is no way to raise him up.

Only one accomplishment is beyond both the power and the mercy of the Gods. They cannot make the past as though it had never been.

Words are the physicians of a mind diseased.

Know not to revere human things too much.

There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.

Take courage; pain’s extremity soon ends.

If a man should wanton walk with crime, he shall find in death no great deliverance.

Suffering brings experience.

I gave them hope, and so turned away their eyes from death.

Honor modesty more than your life.

You shall learn, though late, the lesson of how to be discreet.

In every tyrant’s heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend.

The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.

Nature is truly wonderful. Only man is truly foul.

To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

Tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.

If you are suffering from a bad man’s injustice, forgive him lest there be two bad men.

I wish to raise a Black man who will not be destroyed by, nor settle for, those corruptions called power by the white fathers who mean his destruction as surely as they mean mine.

The Man who says he can, and the man who says he can not. Are both correct.