Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens

The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.

I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.

Learn from the mistakes of others. You can never live long enough to make them all yourself.

No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.

Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.

To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.

The best way to see Faith is to shut the eye of Reason.

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

If you meditate, sooner or later you will come upon love. If you meditate deeply, sooner or later you will start feeling a tremendous love arising in you that you have never known before.

I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.

Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

You laugh at me because I'm different, I laugh at you because you're all the same.

Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.

Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

Better beggar woman and single than Queen and married.

There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're talking about.