I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.

Only one in command: that's the way in the home And the way in the state when it must find Measures best for mankind.

There is no worse evil than a bad woman; and nothing has ever been produced better than a good one.

Knowledge is not wisdom: cleverness is not, not without awareness of our death, not without recalling just how brief our flare is. He who overreaches will, in his overreaching, lose what he possesses, betray what he has now. That which is beyond us, which is greater than the human, the unattainably great, is for the mad, or for those who listen to the mad, and then believe them.

I loathe a friend whose gratitude grows old, a friend who takes his friend's prosperity but will not voyage with him in his grief

Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

The brave endure their labors, the cowardly are worth the cowards nothing at all.