Our Creator shall continue to dwell above the sky, and that is where those on earth will end their thanksgiving.
We should have a bond of sympathy for all sentient beings, knowing that only the depraved and base take pleasure in the sight of blood and suffering.
The mind should be allowed some relaxation, that it may return to its work all the better for the rest.
One hand washes the other.
Democracy is more cruel than wars or tyrants.
Learn how to feel joy.
The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant.
Find a path or make one.
Four things does a reckless man gain who covets his neighbor’s wife – demerit, an uncomfortable bed, thirdly, punishment, and lastly, hell.
Straightforwardness and simplicity are in keeping with goodness.
A hungry people listens not to reason, not cares for justice, nor is bent by any prayers.
You are your choices.
Love of action is not industry.
However wretched a fellow-mortal may be, he is still a member of our common species.
What must be shall be; and that which is a necessity to him that struggles, is little more than choice to him that is willing.
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim.
You must linger among a limited number of master-thinkers, and digest their works, if you would derive ideas which shall win firm hold in your mind.
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 the stars through difficulties.