Love & Life Sayings

I have been nourished by books, and I have found in them a great deal of good as well as a great deal of evil.

In the first place, I put for a general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death.

A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.

A canter is the cure for all evil.

He who is led by fear and does good to avoid evil, is not guided by reason.

Nature makes no leaps.

The human understanding from its peculiar nature, easily supposes a greater degree of order and equality in things than it really finds.

What is terrible is not death, but the lives people live or don't live up to their death.

Let every one of you take heart and go forward like a good soldier, nothing daunted by the smallness of your numbers.

I am not afraid of the darkness. Real death is preferable to a life without living.

The sea is one of the most powerful and wonderful things I have ever seen and I wish to remain by the sea all the time.

Completely destroy South Korea if its security were threatened.

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

Hell is other people.

No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency.

She was not born to be a wife, nor a mother, nor anything but herself.

The greatest fear of a man is to be found out.

The world is not a dangerous place because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.

The greatest evil is not done by evil people, but by people who simply don't care.

The beloved of the gods speaks thus: This Dhamma edict was written twenty-six years after my coronation.