“To be content with what we possess is the greatest and most secure of riches.”

While there’s life, there’s hope.

Freedom is participation in power.

It is a great thing to know your vices.

For walk where we will, we tread upon some story.

Nothing stands out so conspicuously, or remains so firmly fixed in the memory, as something which you have blundered.

Books: our unfailing companions.

To be rather than to seem.

Endless money forms the sinews of war.

Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.

Cultivation of the mind is as necessary as food to the body.

The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.

The causes of events are ever more interesting than the events themselves.

In all matters, before beginning, a diligent preparation should be made.

To make a mistake is only human; to persist in a mistake is idiotic.

The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.

We are bound by the law, so that we may be free.

To die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths!

Life is too short to remain unnoticed.

I’d rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.

All that we see and seem is but a dream within a dream.

Let’s be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.

Life is the most brutal endurance sport of all time.

Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.

Only doubtful truths need defense.