“Noblest minds are easiest bent.”

I detest that man, who hides one thing in the depths of his heart, and speaks forth another.

Always be the best, my boy, the bravest, and hold your head up high above all the others. Never disgrace the generation of your fathers. They were the bravest champions.

The stars never lie, but the astrologers lie about the stars.

Any moment might be our last.

Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other’s good, and melt at other’s woe.

There is nothing alive more agonized than man / of all that breathe and crawl across the earth.

I know not what the future holds, but I know who holds the future.

A man who has been through bitter experiences and travelled far enjoys even his sufferings after a time.

My life is more to me than all the wealth of Ilius.

Immortals are never alien to one another.

Think not to match yourself against the gods, for men that walk the earth cannot hold their own with the immortals.

Too many kings can ruin an army.

It behooves a father to be blameless if he expects his child to be.

Even a fool learns something once it hits him.

It is wrong to be sorry without ceasing.

My every impulse bends to what is right.

The easiest way to disregard a woman’s voice is to package her as a scold.

Now don’t say you can’t swear off drinking; it’s easy. I’ve done it a thousand times.

There is nothing fast or easy about diplomacy. I have no illusions about that.

When the heart is open, it’s easier for the mind to be turned toward God.

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

It’s easy to just write about love, because everyone can relate, but I like variety.

Painful the grounds for resentment, the easier it is for a Fascist leader to gain followers by dangling the prospect of renewal or by vowing to take back what has been stolen.

Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.