“My enemy is not the man who wrongs me, but the man who means to wrong me.”

Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.

The pride of youth is in strength and beauty, the pride of old age is in discretion.

The word is the shadow of the deed.

Raising children is an uncertain thing; success is reached only after a life of battle and worry.

Men should strive to think much and know little.

The animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not.

The man who is fortunate in his choice of son-in-law gains a son; the man unfortunate in his choice loses his daughter also.

Sexual intercourse is a slight attack of apoplexy.

The wise man’s home is the universe.

Everywhere man blames nature and fate yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character and passion, his mistakes and his weaknesses.

One should practice much sense, not much learning.

Good breeding in cattle depends on physical health, but in men on a well-formed character.

Nature and education are somewhat similar. The latter transforms man, and in so doing creates a second nature.

The brave man is not only he who overcomes the enemy, but he who is stronger than pleasures.

The wise man belongs to all countries, for the home of a great soul is the whole world.

Moderation multiplies pleasures, and increases pleasure.

I would not kill my enemies, but I will make them get down on their knees. I will, I can, I must.

The struggle to save the global environment is in one way much more difficult than the struggle to vanquish Hitler, for this time the war is with ourselves. We are the enemy, just as we have only ourselves as allies.

Don’t prepare. Begin. Our enemy is not lack of preparation. The enemy is resistance, our chattering brain producing excuses. Start before you are ready.

Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt.

Nothing is stable in the realm of power, and even closest of friends can be transformed into the worst of enemies.

I don’t have to psych myself up, or do something special mentally – I look through the scope, get my target in the cross hairs, and kill my enemy, before he kills one of my people.

Resistance is not a peripheral opponent. Resistance arises from within. It is self-generated and self-perpetuated. resistance is the enemy within.

The greatest enemy of progress is your last success, you could become so proud of what you’ve already accomplished that you stop moving ahead to what you can still accomplish.