“The king’s might is greater than human, and his arm is very long.”

The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.

Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.

I never yet feared those men who set a place apart in the middle of their cities where they gather to cheat one another and swear oaths which they break.

It is sound planning that invariably earns us the outcome we want; without it, even the gods are unlikely to look with favour on our designs.

The trials of living and the pangs of disease make even the short span of life too long.

All of life is action and passion, and not to be involved in the actions and passions of your time is to risk having not really lived at all.

In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.

The gods loves to punish whatever is greater than the rest.

A woman takes off her claim to respect along with her garments.

If someone were to put a proposition before men bidding them choose, after examination, the best customs in the world, each nation would certainly select its own

Historia (Inquiry); so that the actions of of people will not fade with time.

Let there be nothing untried; for nothing happens by itself, but men obtain all things by trying.

How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.

God does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself.

Where wisdom is called for, force is of little use.

It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing.

I picture myself now, and I picture myself in 30 years, and I’ll probably be the same. I’ll still think I’m not the greatest singer I can be.

Fitness – if it came in a bottle, everybody would have a great body.

Rome has grown since its humble beginnings that it is now overwhelmed by its own greatness.

I’m all over the place with muffins. Carrots are great. Banana, chocolate chip, they rock, too.

Greatness is always built on this foundation: the ability to appear, speak and act, as the most common man.

The great lesson that nature seems to teach us at all ages is self-dependence, self-protection, self-support. In the hours of our keenest sufferings all are thrown wholly on themselves for consolation.

There is nothing man will not attempt when great enterprises hold out the promise of great rewards.

A simple layman armed with Scripture is greater than the mightiest pope without it.