One must live as if it would be forever, and as if one might die each moment. Always both at once..

It is better to believe in men too rashly, and regret, than believe too meanly. Men could be more than they are, if they would try for it. He has sho….

Everything is change; and you cannot step twice into the same river..

Half the world's troubles come from men not being trained to resent a fallacy as much as an insult..

Often beauty grows dull or common when speech breaks the mask..

All men seek esteem; the best by lifting themselves, which is hard to do, the rest by shoving others down, which is much easier..

You can make an audience see nearly anything, if you yourself believe in it..

It is bitter to lose a friend to evil before one loses him to death..

The rightness of a thing isn't determined by the amount of courage it takes..

All tragedies deal with fated meetings; how else could there be a play? Fate deals its stroke; sorrow is purged, or turned to rejoicing; there is dea….

How can people trust the harvest, unless they see it sown?.

He sees himself in his lover as if in a mirror, not knowing whom he sees, And when they are together, he too is released from pain, and when apart, h….

Power is the test. Some, once they have it, are content to buy the show of liking, and punish those who withhold it; then you have a despot. But some….

Go with your fate, but not beyond. Beyond leads to dark places..

A man is at his youngest when he thinks he is a man, not yet realizing that his actions must show it..

One might have supposed that the true act of love was to lie together and talk..

The perpetual stream of human nature is formed into ever-changing shallows, eddies, falls and pools by the land over which it passes. Perhaps the onl….

But courage without conduct is the virtue of a robber, or a tyrant..

There is nothing like despair to make one throw oneself upon the gods..

In all men is evil sleeping; the good man is he who will not awaken it, in himself or in other men..

We Persians have a saying that one should deliberate serious matters first drunk, then sober..