“Great things are won by great dangers.”

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.

The Lacedaemonians fought a memorable battle; they made it quite clear that they were the experts, and that they were fighting against amateurs.

We are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see.

Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.

The worst part a man can suffer is to have insight into much and power over nothing.

If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it.

My men have become women, but the women men.

The worst pain a man can have is to know much and be impotent to act.

We have two useless gods who never leave our island, but like to dwell in it constantly, Poverty and Helplessness.

The ear is a less trustworthy witness than the eye.

If one is sufficiently lavish with time, everything possible happens.

But this I know: if all mankind were to take their troubles to market with the idea of exchanging them, anyone seeing what his neighbor’s troubles were like would be glad to go home with his own.

Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.

Men trust their ears less than their eyes.

It is the gods’ custom to bring low all things of surpassing greatness.

The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself.

Free speech is too dangerous to a democracy to be permitted.

People avoid action. Often because they are afraid of the consequences, for action means risk and danger. Danger seems terrible from a distance; it is not so bad if you have a close look at it

As an unmarried woman, I was thought to be a danger.

Beware of artists, they mix with all classes of society and are therefore most dangerous.

Poverty anywhere is a danger to prosperity everywhere.

The danger to the country, to Europe, to her vast Empire, which is involved in having all these great interests entrusted to the shaking hand of an old, wild, and incomprehensible man of 82, is very great!

The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly.