Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.

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.

When the inner beauty exceeds the outward beauty--it creates a magical dance in the heart.

So much of life, it seems, is determined by pure randomness.

Liberals want Conservatives to shut up. Conservatives want Liberals to keep talking. Because our arguments make sense and theirs don't

Like secondhand smoke, the leakage of emotions can make a bystander an innocent casualty of someone else's toxic state.

The course of history as a whole is no object of experience; history has no eidos, because the course of history extends into the unknown future.

Never abandon your dreams. You may regret it for the rest of your life.

You don't meet a lot of people that you really like. I don't anyway.

Frustrations are going to be there in every profession you're in.

I don't need anything to live, to be honest. Give me a mattress or a futon on the floor and I'll be the happiest camper.