It is never right to do wrong or to requite wrong with wrong, or when we suffer evil to defend ourselves by doing evil in return.

This is...self-knowled ge-for a man to know what he knows, and what he does not know.

Obscurity is dispelled by augmenting the light of discernment, not by attacking the darkness.

Be true to thine own self.

Pride divides the men, humility joins them.

I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.

Lies are the greatest murder. They kill the Truth.