“Nature herself has imprinted on the minds of all the idea of God.”

A mental stain can neither be blotted out by the passage of time nor washed away by any waters.

Our span of life is brief, but is long enough for us to live well and honestly.

In times of war, the law falls silent.

A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation.

It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.

What can be more delightful than to have some one to whom you can say everything with the same absolute confidence as to yourself?

Life is nothing without friendship.

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.

The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.

Your enemies can kill you, but only your friends can hurt you.

To study philosophy is nothing but to prepare one’s self to die.

No power on earth, if it labours beneath the burden of fear, can possibly be strong enough to survive.

He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.

To teach is a necessity, to please is a sweetness, to persuade is a victory.

Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself: if you heed yourself, you’ll never go wrong.

Knowledge which is divorced from justice may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

Woman is the light of God.

Crazy. Karma is a b****. Gets you every time. Its not good to wish bad on anybody. God sees everything!

God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.

He who thinks half-heartedly will not believe in God; but he who really thinks has to believe in God.

Don’t focus on the winds, the waves, the impossibilities. Focus on what God said.

God just has a way of working things out the way he wants to and you have no say in that.

God has made the cat to give man the pleasure of caressing the tiger.

To her, the name of father was the name of god.