“What are the children of men, but as leaves that drop at the wind’s breath?”

To be loved, you have to be nice to people, everyday. But to be hated, you don’t have to do squat!

He knew how to say many false things that were like true sayings.

Wise to resolve, and patient to perform.

No one can hurry me down to Hades before my time, but if a man’s hour is come, be he brave or be he coward, there is no escape for him when he has once been born.

Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing, sooner than war.

A guest never forgets the host who has treated him kindly.

Be strong, saith my heart; I am a soldier; I have seen worse sights than this.

Trying is the first step toward failure.

To speak his thoughts is every freeman’s right, in peace and war, in council and in fight.

To speak his thoughts is every freeman’s right, in peace and war, in council and in fight.

The force of union conquers all.

There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.

It is not possible to fight beyond your strength, even if you strive.

Fate is the same for the man who holds back, the same if he fights hard.

You ought not to practice childish ways, since you are no longer that age.

Scepticism is as much the result of knowledge, as knowledge is of scepticism.

There is one common flow, one common breathing, all things are in sympathy.

Fat people who want to reduce should take their exercise on an empty stomach and sit down to their food out of breath…. Thin people who want to get fat should do exactly the opposite and never take exercise on an empty stomach.

But only a brief moment is granted to the brave one breath or two, whose wage is the long nights of the grave.

With every drop of water you drink, every breath you take, you’re connected to the sea.

How great is the mystery of the first cells which were one day animated by the breath of our souls! How impossible to decipher the welding of successive influences in which we are forever incorporated! In each one of us, through matter, the whole history of the world is in part reflected.

Truly to sing, that is a different breath.

War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans.

You want to set this one down so you can take a breath, and keep reading–all at the same time.