“Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?”

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

Settle one difficulty, and you keep a hundred away.

Your life is what your thoughts make it.

If you are the smartest person in the room, then you are in the wrong room.

The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.

A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do we know that his future will not be equal to our present?

They must often change who would remain constant in happiness and wisdom.

The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.

A common man marvels at uncommon things. A wise man marvels at the commonplace.

If you don’t want to do something,don’t impose on others.

Consideration for others is the basis of a good life, a good society.

If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear?

Learning without thought is labour lost; thought without learning is perilous.

Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.

Learn as if you were not reaching your goal and as though you were scared of missing it.

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

God’s and beasts, that is what our world is made of.

If beauty can love the beast, imagine what she can conquer.

I need a wolf, a beast with a ravenous appetite. Devour me like desperate goods. Ravage me my warrior lover, mark your territory. I’m not a typical lover, I’m a woman with a taste for blood.

Will you voyage out, will you venture? Will you plunder all the gold? Will be as wise as you are brave and bold? Only beasts can do it alone, truth be told.

This heart of mine wears battle scars, only a beast could understand. A hunter must be patient in this war zone of land.

A beast can never be as cruel as a human being, so artistically, so picturesquely cruel.

Life is just another beast you were meant to tame, and there is no one better for the job, other than you.

Sometimes you gotta be beauty and a beast.