“Knowledge which is divorced from justice may be called cunning rather than wisdom.”

The closer the collapse of the Empire, the crazier its laws are.

Never injure a friend, even in jest.

Freedom will bite back more fiercely when suspended than when she remains undisturbed.

Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

Diseases of the soul are more dangerous and more numerous than those of the body.

We must not only obtain Wisdom: we must enjoy her.

We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Kindness is stronger than fear.

It is foolish to tear one’s hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.

Ability without honor is useless.

A friend is a second self.

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

Time obliterates the fictions of opinion and confirms the decisions of nature.

I criticize by creation, not by finding fault.

Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.

I am not ashamed to confess I am ignorant of what I do not know.

I dislike my fellow-mortals. Justice compels me to add that they appear for the most part to dislike me.

There’s not much time left. Make your voice heard.

Unless someone like you comes around, things will never change.

Peace cannot exist where justice is not served.

You have to tell the whole truth, the good and the bad, maybe some things that are uncomfortable for some people.

If you ain’t wit us, We ain’t with you all.

You have to tell the whole truth, the good and the bad, maybe some things that are uncomfortable for some people.

If you ain’t wit us, We ain’t with you all.