To be able to bear provocation is an argument of great reason, and to forgive it of a great mind.''
People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.
Anyone who lives in this time is concerned with grottiness.
It is rude to silence a fool, and cruelty to let him go on.
When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.
Let thy discontents be thy secrets.
Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.
Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.
The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.
Be wiser than other people, if you can but do not tell them so.
You may delay, but time will not, and lost time is never found again.
Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.
Irony is an insult conveyed in the form of a compliment
