The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.

Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.

A free man is as jealous of his responsibilities as he is of his liberties.

Belief is best when uncomplicated by reason.

The will to persevere is often the difference between failure and success.

Every night he comes With musics of all sorts, and songs composed To her unworthiness. It nothing steads us To chide him from our eaves, for he persists As if his life lay on't.

Vices of the time; vices of the man.

Such an exploit have I in hand, Ligarius, Had you a healthful ear to hear of it.

Whoever rewards evil for good, evil will not depart from their house.

I wish I knew the good of wishing.

Whereto serves mercy But to confront the visage of offense?

Gradually I came to realize that people will more readily swallow lies than truth, as if the taste of lies was homey, appetizing: a habit.

The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.

I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.

The spirit of a person's life is ever shedding some power, just as a flower is steadily bestowing fragrance upon the air. thanks to Michele Rousseau -T. Starr King.

I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.

Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.

If you lead on the people with correctness, who will dare not to be correct?

There are four kinds of people, three of which are to be avoided and the fourth cultivated: those who don't know that they don't know; those who know that they don't know; those who don't know that they know; and those who know that they know.

Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help.