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Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed too severe, seldom executed.
Benjamin Franklin





If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.
Confucius





Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else.
Leonardo da Vinci





Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.
Albert Einstein





No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics, the cause of freedom versus tyranny.
Hannah Arendt





So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.
Marcus Tullius Cicero





Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.
Jean de La Fontaine





Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.
Marcus Tullius Cicero





Thunder is good, thunder is impressive but it is lightning that does the work.
Mark Twain





Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice.
Francis Bacon





In the late 1990s, some of the worst terrorist atrocities in the world were what the Turkish government itself called state terror, namely massive atrocities, 80 percent of the arms coming from the United States, millions of refugees, tens of thousands of people killed, hideous repression, that's international terror, and we can go on and on.
Noam Chomsky





Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.
Albert Einstein





For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all.
Aristotle





Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.
Gustave Flaubert





Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche





Girls we love for what they are young men for what they promise to be.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe





Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
Albert Einstein





Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
Bertolt Brecht





Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.
William Shakespeare





Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education.
Marcus Tullius Cicero





The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow.
Marcus Tullius Cicero





Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.
George Bernard Shaw





Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.
Marcus Tullius Cicero





Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Albert Einstein





It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche





Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.
Albert Einstein





It is forbidden to kill therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
Voltaire





The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God.
Victor Hugo





Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.
Mark Twain





Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments.
Plato






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