Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.

Since custom is the principal magistrate of man's life, let men by all means endeavor to obtain good customs.

Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.

People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.

Excusations, cessions, modesty itself well governed, are but arts of ostentation.

My painting is not violent, it's life that is violent. Even within the most beautiful landscape, in the trees, under the leaves, the insects are eating each other; violence is a part of life. We are born with a scream; we come into life with a scream and maybe love is a mosquito net between the fear of living and the fear of death.

Men of noble birth are noted to be envious towards new men when they rise. For the distance is altered, and it is like a deceit of the eye, that when others come on they think themselves go back.