That which is good for all and any one, For whomsoever- that is good for me
What I hold good for self, I should for all. Only Law Universal is true law.
Through discipline comes freedom.
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
Freedom is the power to live as we choose.
The present will not long endure.
No man is wise enough by himself.
As long as I breathe, I hope.
Difficulty shows what men are.
Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence.
Turn yourself not away from three best things: Good Thought, Good Word, and Good Deed.
We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
The master leads by emptying people’s minds and filling their cores, by weakening their ambition and toughening their resolve.
Bastions of wealth are no deference for the man who treads the grand altar of Justice down and out of sight.
Only the dead have seen the end of war.
Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.
No man pleases by silence; many I please by speaking briefly.
Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.
If someone speaks badly of you, do not defend yourself against the accusations, but reply; you obviously don’t know about my other vices otherwise you would have mentioned these as well.
I will suffer nothing as great as death without glory.
It’s not through words but actions that I want to set the luster on my life.
All is fair in love and war
Universal love is really the way of the sage-kings. It is what gives peace to the rulers and sustenance to the people.
He that is discontented in one place will seldom be happy in another.
Love and dignity cannot share the same abode.
Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.
Doubt everything. Find your own light.
While there’s life there’s hope, and only the dead have none.
An evil life is a kind of death.
People are distressed by their inability to do it. The problem, however, is simply that they don’t do it.
First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.
Knowledge which is divorced from justice may be called cunning rather than wisdom.
There are three attributes for which I am grateful to Fortune: that I was born, first, human and not animal; second, man and not woman; and third, Greek and not barbarian.
I feel people will tend toward universal love and mutual aid like fire tending upward and water downwards
Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together,but do so with all your heart.
It is their character indeed that makes people who they are. But it is by reason of their actions that they are happy or the reverse.
Life is like a play: it’s not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.
The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool.
Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.
The haft of the arrow had been feathered with one of the eagles own plumes. We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction.
No man is free who is not master of himself.
He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
Self-control is the chief element in self-respect, and self-respect is the chief element in courage.
