If God forbade drinking, would He have made wine so good?

Friendship is the medicine for all misfortune; but ingratitude dries up the fountain of all goodness.

Reason must be the universal rule and guide; all things must be done according to reason without allowing oneself to be swayed by emotion.

Had Luther and Calvin been confined before they had begun to dogmatize, the states would have been spared many troubles.

First, all means to conciliate; failing that, all means to crush.

A single word has sometimes lost or won an empire.

Nothing so upholds the laws as the punishment of persons whose rank is as great as their crime.

Give me six lines written by the most honorable person alive, and I shall find enough in them to condemn them to the gallows.

Deception is the knowledge of kings.

Never write a letter and never destroy one.

Nothing is as dangerous for the state as those who would govern kingdoms with maxims found in books.

As much as the destination ends the journey, so it is of the dream coming true.

I hate men who are afraid of women's strength.

The best quote has never been said nor written.I do not need a quote.P. HermansNetherlands, August 11, 2016

To know the true nature of a person unknown, just see closely and correctly the character of known people who truly like him or her.

When I look at commercial studios, I think, "Oh, they're all so nice and tidy," but it's because they don't actually write music in them.

Hark! o'er the dread abyss the sea-bird screams-- The rocks resound--again the lightning gleams!

Set religion free, and a new humanity will begin.

But I don't bet the farm on any of those possibilities, either. I'm also preparing, intelligently, to walk away from this, and walk away from it happy to have had the experience.

Leading by fear is a lot of companies' approach, and a horrible way for people to exist in their lives, when most of your life is spent at work.

My wife is Greek. I was a non-denomination Christian before we got married.