“Destroy the seed of evil, or it will grow up to your ruin.”

There can be no good fable with human beings in it. There can be no good fairy tale without them.

Better to starve free than be a fat slave.

Better to starve free than be a fat slave.

Do not attempt to hide things which cannot be hidden.

Please all, and you will please none.

Better beans and bacon in peace than cakes and ale in fear.

The more you want, the more you stand to lose.

In union, there is strength.

Don’t neglect the future in times of plenty, for tomorrow you may need what you wasted today.

A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.

Betray a friend, and you’ll often find you have ruined yourself.

It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.

Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.

To be well prepared for war is the best guarantee of peace.

Don’t be in a hurry to change one evil for another.

If you don’t want to lose, you should wait for the right opportunity

Here we are, the most clever species ever to have lived. So how is it we can destroy the only planet we have?

Let the beauty of solitude heal and not destroy.

Luxury destroys more efficiently than war.

I loved him greatly, only to be hurt and destroyed by the unstable feelings breathing within him.

The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.

Try till you succeed, if you don’t succeed once, then destroy all evidence of the fact that you tried!

I don’t drink water. Have you seen the way it rusts pipes?

It is easier to remove tyrants and destroy concentration camps than to kill the ideas that gave them birth.