“Unsung, the noblest deed will die.”

May God grant me love for that which has splendor; but in this time of my life let me strive for attainable things.

Many a time the thing left silent makes for happiness.

Even now I am full of hope, but the end lies in God.

Learn what you are and be such.

With our mortal minds we should seek from the gods that which becomes us.

War is sweet for those who haven’t experienced it.

A thing said walks in immortality if it has been said well.

Envy, the attendant of the empty mind.

A good deed hidden in silence dies.

Creatures of a day, what is any one? What is he not? Man is but a dream of a shadow. Yet when there comes as a gift of heaven a gleam of sunshine, there rest upon men a radiant light and, aye, a gentle life.

To our own sorrows serious heed we give, But for another?s we soon cease to grieve.

He is gifted with genius who knoweth much by natural inspiration.

For lawless joys a bitter ending waits.

Finding that the middle condition of life is by far the happiest, I look with little favor upon that of princes.

Forge thy tongue on an anvil of truth and what flies up, though it be but a spark, will have light.

There is a mortal breed most full of futility. In contempt of what is at hand, they strain into the future, hunting impossibilities on the wings of ineffectual hopes.

Know thyself means this, that you get acquainted with what you know, and what you can do.

Up against another human being one’s own procedures take on definition.

For all kinds of reasons, it is more difficult to track women’s lives. Women’s words have simply been considered less important, so they have been preserved less often.

We put him in touch with his inner reality.

Sometimes I try my hand at turning out small profundities and uncertain short stories, but I always end up with just one single word: God.

Its strength lies in its open architecture and its ability to allow a framework where all voices can be heard.

Women that are the least bashful are often the most modest.

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