"Man is not constituted to take pleasure in the same things always."

"Wise thinkers prevail everywhere."

"Hide nothing, for time, which sees all and hears all, exposes all."

"The oaths of a woman I inscribe on water."

"A day lays low and lifts up again all human things."

"A fearful man is always hearing things."

"No honest man will argue on every side"

"It is God's giving if we laugh or weep"

"It is only great souls that know how much glory there is in being good"

"In a just cause the weak will beat the strong."

"To give birth is a fearsome thing; there is no hating the child one has borne even when injured by it."

"Better not to exist than live basely."

"There is no witness so terrible and no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us."

"It is a base thing for a man among the people not to obey those in command. Never in a state can the laws be well administered when fear does not stand firm."

"To live without evil belongs only to the gods."

"A soul that is kind and intends justice discovers more than any sophist."

"Always desire to learn something useful."

"The ideal condition would be, I admit, that men should be right by instinct; but since we are all likely to go astray, The reasonable thing is to learn from those who can teach"

"Men of perverse opinion do not know the excellence of what is in their hands, till someone dash it from them."

"If you are out of trouble, watch for danger"

"One learns by doing the thing; for though you think you know it, you have no certainty until you try"

"In darkness one may be ashamed of what one does, without the shame of disgrace"

"Dark, dark! The horror of darkness, like a shroud, wraps me and bears me on through mist and cloud."

"Desire looks clear from the eyes of a lovely bride: power as strong as the founded world"

"I would prefer even to fail with honor than to win by cheating"

"None love the messenger who brings bad news."

"No man loves life like him that's growing old"

"Knowledge must come through action; you can have no test, which is not fanciful; save by trial"

"Success is dependent on effort."

"Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness."

"Wisdom outweighs any wealth."

"Who seeks shall find."

"Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way."

"A man growing old becomes a child again."

"Children are the anchors of a mother's life."

"Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception."

"Most people think of leadership as a position and therefore don't see themselves as leaders."

"Management works in the system; Leadership works on the system."

"The ''Inside-Out'' approach to personal and interpersonal effectiveness means to start first with self; even more fundamentally, to start with the most inside part of self / with your paradigms, your character, and your motives. The inside-out approach says that private victories precede public victories, that making and keeping promises to ourselves recedes making and keeping promises to others. It says it is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves."

"Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones."

"You can't live principals you can't understand."

"Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential. They experience synergy only in small, peripheral ways in their lives. But creative experiences can be produced regularly, consistently, almost daily in people's lives. It requires enormous personal security and openness and a spirit of adventure."

"The most important ingredient we put into any relationship is not what we say or what we do, but what we are. And if our words and our actions come from superficial human relations techniques (the Personality Ethic) rather than from our own inner core (the Character Ethic), others will sense that duplicity. We simply won't be able to create and sustain the foundation necessary for effective interdependence."

"Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it."

"It's easy to say ''no!'' when there's a deeper ''yes!'' burning inside."

"Wisdom is your perspective on life, your sense of balance, your understanding of how the various parts and principles apply and relate to each other. It embraces judgment, discernment, comprehension. It is a gestalt or oneness, and integrated wholeness."

"Seek first to understand and then to be understood."

"Until we take how we see ourselves (and how we see others) into account, we will be unable to understand how others see and feel about themselves and their world. Unaware, we will project our intentions on their behavior and call ourselves objective."

"Between stimulus and response, one has the freedom to choose."