You have heard that it was said, 'Eye for eye, and tooth for tooth.' But I tell you, do not resist an evil person. If someone strikes you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also.
There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.
The object of the superior man is truth.
Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.
Colorless green ideas sleep furiously
Resist much. Obey little.
Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.
Time wounds all heels.
Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.
No one cares how much you know, until they know how much you care
I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
He who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
Love make us poets, and the approach of death should make us philosophers.
Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.
The ethos of redemption is realized in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires.
I mistrust the judgement of every man in a case in which his own wishes are concerned.
Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.
Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives.
Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.