“Luxury destroys more efficiently than war.”

It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.

Dare to do things worthy of imprisonment if you mean to be of consequence.

Now we suffer the evils of a long peace; luxury more cruel than war broods over us and avenges a conquered world.

Bad men hate sin through fear of punishment; good men hate sin through their love of virtue.

If you are capable of submitting to insult you ought to be insulted.

Writing in the incurable itch that possesses many.

Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior.

All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.

It is but the weak and little mind that rejoices in revenge

The wise man sets bounds even to his innocent desires.

Whenever fortune wishes to joke, she lifts people from what is humble to the highest extremity of affairs.

In the present state of the world it is difficult not to write lampoons.

Many a man has met death from the rushing flood of his own eloquence; others from the strength and wondrous thews in which they have trusted.

Honesty is admired, and starves.

Today there’s more fellowship among snakes than among mankind. Wild beasts spare those with similar markings.

So Nature ordains; no evil example corrupts us so soon and so rapidly as one that has been set at home, since it comes into the mind on high authority.

One thing we all need to realize – the fear is in your mind. The fear is what we have created. If we created it, we have the antidote to destroy it!

Pandemics like COVID-19 could occur more frequently unless we stop destroying nature.

I desire the things that will destroy me in the end.

Revolutions overturn systems. Revolutions destroy systems.

Love always creates, it never destroys. In this lie’s man’s only promise.

Mankind owns its destiny, and its destiny is the earth. We are destroying it until we have no destiny.

We shall fight against them, throw them in prisons and destroy them.

Anger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does.