Villains are undone by what is worst in them, heroes by what is best.
One always speaks badly when one has nothing to say.
Men who have seen life and death... as an unbroken continuum, the swinging pendulum, have been able to move as freely into death as they walked through life. Socrates went to the grave almost perplexed by his companions' tears.
The best way to be boring is to include everything.
The way to become boring is to say everything.
A good action is preferable to an argument.