“The truth is always the strongest argument.”

You must remember that no one lives a life free from pain and suffering.

Opinions have greater power than strength of hands.

Remember, nothing succeeds without toil.

What fate can be worse than to know we have no one but ourselves to blame for our misfortunes!

A wise man does not chatter with one whose mind is sick.

Quick decisions are unsafe decisions.

I am the child of Fortune, the giver of good, and I shall not be shamed. She is my mother; my sisters are the Seasons; my rising and my falling match with theirs. Born thus, I ask to be no other man than that I am.

You should not consider a man’s age but his acts.

Strike at a great man, and you will not miss.

Men of perverse opinion do not know the excellence of what is in their hands, till someone dash it from them.

If you are out of trouble, watch for danger. And when you live well, then consider the most your life, lest ruin take it unawares.

Let men be wise by instinct if they can, but when this fails be wise by good advice.

Now let the weeping cease; Let no one mourn again. These things are in the hands of God.

A fearful man is always hearing things.

Always desire to learn something useful.

And if you think my acts are foolishness the foolishness may be in a fool’s eye.

Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments.

To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.

To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead, or endeavoring to convert an atheist by scripture.

A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.

It’s unarguable that the right shoes can really add elegance to an outfit and to the person who’s wearing them. Take a pair of high heels, for instance. Suddenly, you’re looking taller, shoulders back, body curved.

When heart speaks and heart listens, harmony is produced. When head talks and head listens, argument is produced.

If you want to stop an argument, close your mouth.

Liberty is a great celestial Goddess, strong, beneficent, and austere, and she can never descend upon a nation by the shouting of crowds, nor by arguments of unbridled passion, nor by the hatred of class against class.