If these town gods can't detect the thieves who steal from their own temples, it's hardly likely they'll tell me who stole my spade.

Any excuse will serve a tyrant.

Those who voluntarily put power into the hands of a tyrant ... must not wonder if it be at last turned against themselves.

The level of our success is limited only by our imagination and no act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted.

Appearances are deceiving.

Our insignificance is often the cause of our safety.

There was once a Bald Man who sat down after work on a hot summer's day. A Fly came up and kept buzzing about his bald pate, and stinging him from time to time. The Man aimed a blow at his little enemy, but — whack — his palm came on his head instead; again the Fly tormented him, but this time the Man was wiser and said: YOU WILL ONLY INJURE YOURSELF IF YOU TAKE NOTICE OF DISPICABLE ENEMIES.