“Change in all things is sweet.”

All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.

Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.

Quality is not an act, it is a habit.

It is a life which involves effort and is not spent in amusement.

Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.

All men by nature desire knowledge.

Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.

Where your talents and the needs of the world cross, there lies your vocation.

Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach.

All Earthquakes and Disasters are warnings; there’s too much corruption in the world.

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

We must be neither cowardly nor rash but courageous.

Man is a goal-seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.

The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend.

Anyone who has no need of anybody but himself is either a beast or a God.

Usually when people are sad, they don’t do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

I don’t know that love changes. People change. Circumstances change.

Each moment that passes changes you. You can’t even own yourself. How can you ever hope to own anyone or anything else.

In the past, humans hesitated when they took lives, even non-human lives. But society had changed, and they no longer felt that way.

We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them.

For things to change, you have to change. For things to get better, you have to get better. For things to improve, you have to improve. When you grow, everything in your life grows with you.

Your growth scares people who don’t want to change.

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, not the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.