“Be both a speaker of words and a doer of deeds.”

Life is largely a matter of expectation.

Even his griefs are a joy long after to one that remembers all that he wrought and endured.

Come then, put away your sword in its sheath, and let us two go up into my bed so that, lying together in the bed of love, we may then have faith and trust in each other.

I long for home, long for the sight of home.

If you serve too many masters, you’ll soon suffer.

Hateful to me as are the gates of hell, Is he who, hiding one thing in his heart, Utters another.

Young men’s minds are always changeable, but when an old man is concerned in a matter, he looks both before and after.

I promise you I will do everything just as you ask. But come closer. Let us give in to grief, however briefly, in each other’s arms.

Of all creatures that breathe and move upon the earth, nothing is bred that is weaker than man.

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.

Miracles don’t exist it’s just the good deeds that pile up, the warm smiles and love. Eventually all of it overflows and creates what appears to be a miracle.

Words that do not match deeds are unimportant.

I do not forget any good deed done to me & I do not carry a grudge for a bad one.

Beware of sentimental alliances where the consciousness of good deeds is the only compensation for noble sacrifices.

Practice justice in word and deed, and do not get in the habit of acting thoughtlessly about anything.

You can tell the man who rings true from the man who rings false, not by his deeds alone, but also by his desires.

The word is the shadow of the deed.

We can discover this meaning in life in three different ways: 1. by doing a deed; 2. by experiencing a value; and 3. by suffering.