Bottling up his malice to be suppressed and brought out with increased violence.

The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.

Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.

Men are more ready to repay an injury than a benefit, because gratitude is a burden and revenge a pleasure

The lust for power, for dominating others, inflames the heart more than any other passion.

If you would know who controls you see who you may not criticise.

In valor there is hope.

When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.

Traitors are hated even by those whom they prefer.

The most seditious is the most cowardly.

It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.

I do not write for children, but for the childlike, whether of five, or fifty, or seventy-five.

A lack of knowledge about your life mission does not abolish the mission itself

Rather than caving in to protests, let us know who is in charge by setting boundaries.

Am I sleeping? Have I slept at all? This is insomnia.

Influence is a matter of selection - both acceptance and rejection.

I have a life that's just been a well of loneliness.

From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.

...treat people with understanding when you can, and fake it when you can't until you do understand.

O lovely chance, what can I doTo give my gratefulness to you?You rise between myself and meWith a wise persistency;I would have broken body and soul,But by your grace, still I am whole.

Dancing and singing were always like games to me. I sang constantly.