As the mother's womb holds us for ten months, making us ready, not for the womb itself, but for life, just so, through our lives, we are making ourselves ready for another birth...Therefore look forward without fear to that appointed hour- the last hour of the body, but not of the soul...That day, which you fear as being the end of all things, is the birthday of your eternity.

It's all in your headJ you have the power to make things seem hard or easy or even amusing. The choice is yours.

The great thing is to know when to speak and when to keep quiet.

Successful crime is dignified with the name of virtue; the good become the slaves of the wicked; might makes right; fear silences the power of the law.

To forgive all is as inhuman as to forgive none

The fortune of war is always doubtful.

If wisdom were offered me with this restriction, that I should keep it close and not communicate it, I would refuse the gift.