Luxury, that alluring pest with fair forehead, which, yielding always to the will of the body, throws a deadening influence over the senses, and weakens the limbs more than the drugs of Circe's cup.

What Roman power slowly built, an unarmed traitor instantly overthrew.

He who seeks to terrify others is more in fear himself.

Nature has given the opportunity of happiness to all, knew they but how to use it.

Whoever desires is always poor.

Power call achieve more by gentle means than by violence.

Nothing is more annoying than a low man raised to a high position.

The people become more observant of justice, and do not refuse to submit to the laws when they see them obeyed by their enactor.

Death is the great leveller.

A severe war lurks under the show of peace.

In sleep, when fancy is let loose to play, Our dreams repeat the wishes of the day.

A moment or an eternity—did it matter? Life, undefeated, existed and could exist.

Don’t be naïve – appearance matters. Style comes before substance during first impressions. People judge based on what they see before they find out what’s within.

A woman protested saying, "Of course it was a righteous war. My son fell in it.".

Too many thousands of opened books yawned between them and him. He had exiled himself.

And sometimes through the mirror blue The knights come riding two and two.

We learned not to meet anymore, We don't raise our eyes to one another, But we ourselves won't guarantee What could happen to us in an hour.

We'll see who believes in me now. I am the Prankster God - I am killing me!

Old clothes do not make a tortured artist.

Bashar Assad clearly doesn't want to hear anything that impugns his government.

Seeing-is-believing is a blind spot in man's vision.