“No wealth can ever make a bad man at peace with himself.”

Philosophy is the highest music.

Time is the moving image of reality.

The measure of a man is what he does with power.

Love is born into every human being; it calls back the halves of our original nature together; it tries to make one out of two and heal the wound of human nature.

Death is not the worst that can happen to men.

Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable.

The first and best victory is to conquer self.

Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.

Man is a being in search of meaning.

Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.

Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.

If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.

Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood, let alone believed, by the masses.

Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder.

He whom loves touches not walks in darkness.

But Above all things truth beareth away the victory.

I feel the need to reaffirm all of it, the whole unhappy territory and all the things loved and unloveable in it, for it is all part of me.

I’d rather do something I love badly than to feel bad about not doing something I love.

None love the messenger who brings bad news.

I’m fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.

I admit, I don’t look like the athlete of the day’s supposed to look. My belly’s just a little big, my heinie’s just a little big, but, brother, I am bad, and they know I’m bad.

Career diversification ain’t a bad thing.

Satisfy a few to please many is bad.

Most people don’t have that willingness to break bad habits. They have a lot of excuses and they talk like victims.