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No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.
George Bernard Shaw /





Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.
Plato /





Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with.
François de La Rochefoucauld /





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





Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves nor their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.
Plato /





It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.
Benjamin Franklin /





Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.
Marcus Tullius Cicero /





There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.
Oscar Wilde /





When people do not respect us we are sharply offended yet in his private heart no man much respects himself.
Mark Twain /





That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.
Marcus Tullius Cicero /





The course of true love never did run smooth.
William Shakespeare - A Midsummer Night's Dream / 
 





There are fathers who do not love their children there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.
Victor Hugo /





Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.
Marcus Aurelius /





Success is a science if you have the conditions, you get the result.
Oscar Wilde /





I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.
Francis Bacon /





True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.
Honore de Balzac /





Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature.
Baruch Spinoza /





If you don't know how to die, don't worry Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you don't bother your head about it.
Michel de Montaigne /





Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.
George Bernard Shaw /





Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.
Sigmund Freud /





We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche /





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





Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.
Honore de Balzac /





Which government is the best? The one that teaches us to govern ourselves.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe /





He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.
Benjamin Franklin /





Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
Socrates /





The strongest passion is fear.
Jean de La Fontaine /





Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.
Confucius /





Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.
Marcus Aurelius /





The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.
Marcus Aurelius /






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