“If you want to live your whole life free from pain you must become either a god or else a corpse. Consider other men’s troubles and that will comfort you.”

The good man makes others good.

No man alive can say, This shall not happen to me.

The truth sometimes not sought for comes forth to the light.

I call a fig a fig, a spade a spade.

Of all wild beasts on earth or in sea, the greatest is a woman.

Being mortal, never pray for an untroubled life. Rather, ask the God to give you an enduring heart.

There are many wild beasts on land and in the sea, but the beastliest of all is woman.

It must be that evil communications corrupt good dispositions.

Sleep is a healing balm for every ill.

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

Do not fight against Providence; nor bring more heavy weather to the storm. Face what is already there.

It is as easy to draw back a stone thrown with force from the hand, as to recall a word once spoken.

To live is not to live for one’s self; let us help one another.

Fortune is no real thing. But men who cannot bear what comes to them In Nature’s way, give their own characters The name of Fortune.

He who labors diligently need never despair.

There is no such cozy combination as man and wife.

I never really got over the fun of making letters.

You aren’t alive if you aren’t in need.

One race there is of men, one of gods, but from one mother we both draw our breath.

I read because I have to. It drives everything else from my mind. It lets me escape to find other world.

no woman was ever liberated until her time, no woman really ever amounted to anything.

Grace is the offer of God’s ceaseless presence and irrational love that cannot be stopped.

The whole world will tell them what’s wrong with them–out loud and often.

These are great/courageous ideas which time has come! Liberation of animals is REVOLUTION – not elegant performance/ intellectual competition.