Wisdom Sayings

For I would that all men were even as I myself. But every man hath his proper gift of God, one after this manner, and another after that.

Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt.

Whosoever, O Mazda, by his thoughts, words, and deeds makes a sacrifice to Thee, he shall be granted the best existence.

What has been affirmed without proof can also be denied without proof.

Don't mix a fire with a knife.

Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.

Apprehended slaves trying to run back to barbarian lands should either have their feet cut off or be sent into the mine.

I will either find a way or make one.

The blade itself incites to deeds of violence.

The mind is everything. What you think you become.

Choose life so that you and your descendants may live.

It is man that can make the Way great, and not the Way that can make man great.

All living beings are endowed with consciousness.

I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.

Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.

If you are squeamish, don't prod the beach rubble.

Eureka! (I have found it!)

Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.

I will not be triumphed over.

I would rather live a short life of glory than a long one of obscurity.