“A man who takes pleasure in speaking continuously fools himself in thinking he is not unpleasant to those around him.”

The kind of man who always thinks that he is right, that his opinions, his pronouncements, are the final word, when once exposed shows nothing there. But a wise man has much to learn without a loss of dignity.

The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.

What greater wound is there than a false friend?

All is disgust when one leaves his own nature and does things that misfit it.

Opportunity has power over all things.

Much wisdom often goes with fewer words.

Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

You win the victory when you yield to friends.

Fear? What has a man to do with fear? Chance rules our lives, and the future is all unknown. Best live as we may, from day to day.

God will not punish the man Who makes return for an injury.

Gentle time will heal our sorrows.

It is the task of a good man to help those in misfortune.

Truly, to tell lies is not honorable; but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, to speak dishonorably is pardonable.

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.

You think I am a fool, but you are a greater fool than I am.

It is supposed to true that those who do not know history are condemned to repeat it. I don’t believe knowing can save us. What is constant in history is greed and foolishness and love of blood.

Our religion seems foolish to you, but so does yours to me. The Baptists and Methodists and Presbyterians and the Catholics all have a different God. Why cannot we have one of our own?

The great secret of the successful fool is that he’s no fool at all.

You’d be a fool to think that you leaving me in darkness meant I’d stay there forever.

They that are fated to be fools, have one consolation, that they are fated also to be ignorant of it.

Though we may not desire to detect fraud, we must not, on that account, endeavor to be insensible of it, for, as cunning is a crime, so is duplicity a fault, and if men dread knaves, they also despise fools.

Impossible is the word for fools in my dictionary.