“Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.”

We should not speak so that it is possible for the audience to understand us, but so that it is impossible for them to misunderstand us.

A man who tries to surpass another may perhaps succeed in equaling in not actually surpassing him, but one who merely follows can never quite come up with him: a follower, necessarily, is always behind.

The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.

There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.

Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.

A religion without mystics is a philosophy.

Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.

(Slaughter) means blood and iron.

For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.

A liar must have a good memory.

The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body.

A mediocre speech supported by all the power of delivery will be more impressive than the best speech unaccompanied by such power.

Lately we have had many losses.

It is the heart which inspires eloquence.

Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.

The soul languishing in obscurity contracts a kind of rust, or abandons itself to the chimera of presumption; for it is natural for it to acquire something, even when separated from any one.

I’m interested in going places that I haven’t been. And I’m interesting in working with people that I feel are dangerous and sort of push me in different places.

Education was in danger from the source that always hampered it – religious fanaticism.

Advertising people who ignore research are as dangerous as generals who ignore decodes of enemy signals.

People crushed by law, have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws; and those who have much hope and nothing to lose, will always be dangerous.

Beg me to fill your body with my dangerous seed.

politics … is the hottest, most dangerous subject in the land. It’s not only a conversation-wrecker, it’s a friendship-wrecker, a family-wrecker, a job-wrecker, a future-wrecker.

A naked woman is less dangerous than one who spreads her skirt skillfully to cover and exhibit everything at once.

The greatest danger you face is your mind growing soft and your eye getting dull.