General Sayings

Do you think that I have come to bring peace to the earth? I have not come to bring peace, but a sword.

Whoever takes a human life shall surely be put to death.

When the great Tao is lost, there is 'benevolence' and 'righteousness'.

The demonic powers or daævás are expressions or faces (čithr) of aká manah or 'beaten/anguished mind.'

It is natural for men to rule over women.

Give me the place to stand, and I shall move the earth.

I had been chosen by the gods, that I was of divine essence and therefore entitled to rule Egypt.

If a man takes a woman to wife, but has no intercourse with her, this woman is no wife to him.

We alone regard a man who takes no interest in public affairs, not as a harmless, but as a useless character.

If you want to be wrong then follow the masses.

When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings.

Then welcome fate! 'Tis true I perish, yet I perish great: Yet in a mighty deed I shall expire, Let future ages hear it, and admire!

I would rather be a first man in a small country than a second man in Rome.

The people may be made to follow a path of action, but they may not be made to understand it.

I will drink no more water, but only wine.

It is not possible to achieve great progress by violence. Indeed, it is by kindness and gentleness that progress is achieved.

All breathing, existing, living, sentient creatures should not be slain, nor treated with violence, nor abused, nor tormented, nor driven away.

The courage of a man is shown in commanding, of a woman in obeying.

Death is nothing to us; for that which is dissolved is without sensation, and that which lacks sensation is nothing to us.

Know yourself and know your enemy, and you will never be defeated.