Wisdom Sayings

Prepare your hearts as a fortress, for there will be no other.

I am not the man I once was. I do not want to go back in time, to be the second son, the second man.

It is vain to expect virtue from women till they are in some degree independent of men.

For they think it a very unjust thing to make a great company of thieves because a man happens to be in want.

It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.

All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.

A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.

The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.

I will make a star-chamber matter of it.

Let my son Mustafa be executed.

I was born a slave, but I have the right to be free.

Every man is the son of his own works.

I can promise to be sincere, but not to be impartial.

Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heav'n.

When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.

I am still in great distress and travail, and have been for some time, on account of the Pope and the chapel.

It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.

I will seize Fate by the throat; it shall certainly not bend me completely to its will.

I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.

There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right notes at the right time and the instrument plays itself.