“Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is worth more.”

But a rascal of a child (that age is without pity).

Help yourself, and Heaven will help you.

Be advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them.

A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.

In everything one must consider the end.

Patience and time do more than strength or passion.

The sign brings customers.

One should oblige everyone to the extent of one’s ability. One often needs someone smaller than oneself.

Nothing is as dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is to be preferred.

As sheepish as a fox captured by a fowl.

Socrates, when informed of some derogating speeches one had used concerning him behind his back, made only this facetious reply, “Let him beat me too when I am absent.

Sadness flies away on the wings of time.

Diversity, that is my motto.

Rely only on yourself; it is a common proverb.

A bluejay in peacock feathers.

Neither wealth or greatness render us happy.

When men – insofar as they are embodiments of the patriarchal idea – have become dangerous to children and other living things, themselves included

Again, during a sacrifice, the augur Spurinna warned Caesar that the danger threatening him would not come later than the Ides of March.

As a rock on the seashore he standeth firm, and the dashing of the waves disturbeth him not. He raiseth his head like a tower on a hill, and the arrows of fortune drop at his feet. In the instant of danger, the courage of his heart here, and scorn to fly.

The more able a man is, if he make ill use of his abilities, the more dangerous will he be to the commonwealth.

Carelessness about our security is dangerous, carelessness about our freedom is also dangerous.

You’re entering dangerous land when you start theorising about comedy.

For many of us the great danger is not that we will renounce our faith. It is that we will become so distracted and rushed and preoccupied that we will settle for a mediocre version of it.

It is better to meet danger than to wait for it.