The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

You place too much importance... on the so-called purity of blood! You fail to recognize that it matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be!

Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.

Great acts are made up of small deeds.

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.

He who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.

Nothing is as easy as it looks.

If you buy what you do not need, you will need what you cannot buy.

There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.

But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

It is divinity that shapes, not only your ends, but also your acts, your words and thoughts.

The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.

If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.

Think globally, act locally.

All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom; justice; honor; duty; mercy; hope.

If we know exactly where we're going, exactly how to get there, and exactly what we'll see along the way, we won't learn anything.

One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.

What can't be cured must be endured.

We never see ourselves as others see us.