What is more cruel than a tyrant's ear?

The dowry, not the wife, is the object of attraction.

Rare is the union of beauty and purity.

Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt

A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.

The arrows are from her dowry.

The abject pleasure of an abject mind And hence so dear to poor weak woman kind. [Lat., Vindicta Nemo magis gaudet, quam femina.]

All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.

Pray for a healthy mind in a healthy body.

Quis costodiet ipsos custodies? (Who will watch the watchers?)

It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.

Don't let the circle you keep drive your life around in circles.

By the way, I never realized that to be nonbelieving, to be an atheist, was a thing to be proud of. It went without saying as it were.

If he loves you he will meet your effort.

A person's last moments are an important thing. You can't choose how you're born but you can choose how you die.

In life it isn't what you've lost, it's what you've got left that counts

Photography has a relation to intervention, but photographing is not the same as an intervening.

I want to savor the aging process. As you get older, you trade your innocence for wisdom and the wisdom is your reward.

We have to start listening to nature now.

Go, stranger, and tell the Lacedaemonians that here we lie, obedient to their commands.

At its best, climbing becomes a life focus around which everything else must orbit and at its least is an excellent diversion from the real world.