“The glory of riches and of beauty is frail and transitory; virtue remains bright and eternal.”

To have the same desires and the same aversion is assuredly a firm bond of friendship.

Get good counsel before you begin; and when you have decided, act promptly.

Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.

It is sweet to surve one country by deeds, and it is not absurd to surve her by words.

Enough words, little wisdom.

Everything that rises sets, and everything that grows, grows old.

To someone seeking power, the poorest man is the most useful.

No grief reaches the dead.

By union the smallest states thrive. By discord the greatest are destroyed.

Just to stir things up seemed a great reward in itself.

All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.

When the prizes fall to the lot of the wicked, you will not find many who are virtuous for virtue’s sake.

By the wicked the good conduct of others is always dreaded.

Deliberate before you begin; but, having carefully done so, execute with vigour.

The glory of wealth and of beauty is fleeting and frail; virtue is illustrious and everlasting.

It is impossible that there should be so much providence in the last details, and none in the first principles. Then the arts of prophecy and of healing, which are part of the cosmos, come of the good providence of the Gods.

What you have in your head, put down on paper. The head is a fragile vessel.

Brown daughters are just fragile glass houses always on the verge of shattering.

Spiritual awakening is not about knowing everything and about being powerful. Quite the opposite is true. It is about resting deeply into not knowing, and about being so sensible and fragile that the belief of the ego dissolve into silence.

I thought butterflies are frail until they began to flit in my stomach.

I broke something and realized I should break something once a week to remind me how fragile life is.

She’s never seemed fragile, or weak. No. Never. Not to me. Her strength, is viking. Her bravery. Her wild. And at night, Helena, she sleeps. With the wolves lovingly at her feet.

Don’t ever think I am fragile because I asked you to handle me with care. It was not a plea, it was a warning. My strength keeps me safe but I can’t say the same for you.

Nothing is so fragile as thought in its infancy; an interruption breaks it: nothing is so powerful, even to overturning empires, when it reaches its maturity.