“There is no need to run outside for better seeing... Rather abide at the center of your being; For the more you leave it the less you learn. Search your heart and see... The way to do is to be.”

“The wise are not learned, the learned are not wise.”

“Your name or your body, what is dearer? Your body or your wealth, what is worthier?”

“In the Golden Age, Rulers were unknown. In the following age Rulers were loved and praised. Next came the age When rulers were feared. Finally the age When rulers are hated.”

“One who believes in himself has no need to convince others.”

“Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel; But do not dull thy palm with entertainment Of each new-hatch'd, unfledg'd comrade.”

“That which I would discoverThe law of friendship bids me to conceal.”

“Virtue's office never breaks men's troth.”

“Prosperity's the very bond of love, Whose fresh complexion and whose heart together Affliction alters.”

“Upon his royal face there is no note how dread an army hath enrounded him.”

“Things at the worst will cease or else climb upward To what they were before.”

“It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay.”

“We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.”

“Never let a good crisis go to waste”

“When Caesar says, 'Do this', it is performed.”

“An two men ride of a horse, one must ride behind.”

“Upon his royal face there is no note how dread an army hath enrounded him.”

“The breach of customIs breach of all.”

“Liberty plucks justice by the nose; The baby beats the nurse, and quite athwart Goes all decorum.”

“What is the city but the people?”

“Virtue and genuine graces in themselves speak what no words can utter.”

“"Fair, kind, and true" is all my argument,"Fair, kind, and true" varying to other words;And in this change is my invention spent,Three themes in one, which wondrous scope affords.”

“I had rather eleven died nobly for their country than one voluptuously surfeit out of action.”