No intelligent man will ever be so bold as to put into language those things which his reason has contemplated.

Wealth does not bring excellence, but that wealth comes from excellence.

Only those who do not seek power are qualified to hold it.

Don't ask a poet to explain himself. He cannot.

For as there are misanthropists, or haters of men, there are also misologists, or haters of ideas, and both spring from the same cause, which is ignorance of the world.

What the expression is intended to mean, I think, is that there is a better and a worse element in the character of each individual, and that when the naturally better element controls the worse then the man is said to be "master of himself", as a term of praise. But when - as a result of bad upbringing or bad company one s better element is overpowered by the numerical superiority of one s worse impulses, then one is criticized for not being master of oneself and for lack of self control.

People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.