“The tyrant is a child of pride.”

How dangerous can false reasoning prove!

Without labor nothing prospers.

Despair often breeds disease.

Fortune never helps the fainthearted.

It is better not to live at all than to live disgraced.

Go then if you must, but remember, no matter how foolish your deeds, those who love you will love you still.

Each say following another, either hastening or putting off our death–what pleasure does it bring? I count that man worthless whois cheered by empty hopes. No, a noble man must either live or die well.

All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.

Fortune is not on the side of the faint-hearted.

If we always helped one another, no one would need luck.

Love, you mock us for your sport.

Kindness begets kindness evermore.

Kindness gives birth to kindness.

The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.

Opportunity is the best captain of all endeavor.

Not knowing anything is the sweetest life.

For a man’s counsel cannot have equal weight or worth, when he alone has no children to risk in the general danger.

The walls of the educational system must come down. Education should not be a privilege, so the children of those who have money can study.

I’ve worked with children all my life.

We are most nearly ourselves when we achieve the seriousness of the child at play.

Even after centuries of human interacting, children still continue to rebel against their parents and siblings.

There is little that gives children greater pleasure than when a grown-up lets himself down to their level, renounces his oppressive superiority and plays with them as an equal.

When children attend schools that place a greater value on discipline and security than on knowledge and intellectual development, they are attending prep schools for prison.

The creative writer does the same as the child at play; he creates a world of fantasy which he takes very seriously.