“A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men.”

Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty

Let the speaker speak truly and the judge decide justly.

He was a wise man who invented God.

Be kind, because everyone is having a really hard time.

You should not honor men more than truth.

Love is the pursuit of the whole.

One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

The greatest wealth is to live content with little.

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth.

Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.

There is truth in wine and children.

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.

The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.

There is in every one of us, even those who seem to be most moderate, a type of desire that is terrible, wild, and lawless.

Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.

If you wait until you feel like doing something, you will likely never accomplish it.

The more impossible the situation, the greater God accomplishes His work.

A person might be an expert in any field of knowledge or a master of many material skills and accomplishments. But without inner cleanliness his brain is a desert waste.

Every worthwhile accomplishment has a price tag attached to it. The question is always whether you are willing to pay the price to attain it – in hard work, sacrifice, patience, faith, and endurance.

I like to feel the butterflies in the stomach, I like to go home and have a restless night and wonder how I’m going to be able to accomplish this feat, get jittery. That hunger and those butterflies in the stomach are very essential for all creative people.

The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.

Death does not trouble me. I have no fear of supernatural punishments, of course, nor could I enjoy an eternal life in which there would be nothing left for me to do, the task of living having been accomplished.