1. "Best to live lightly, unthinkingly."
2. "How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in the truth."
3. "In a just cause the weak will beat the strong."
4. "It is terrible to speak well and be wrong."
5. "I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating."
6. "Kindness gives birth to kindness."
7. “Look and you will find It - what is unsought will go undetected.”
8. "Love, unconquerable,Waster of rich men, keeperOf warm lights and all-night vigilIn the soft face of a girl:Sea-wanderer, forest-visitor!Even the pure immortals cannot escape you,And mortal men, in his one day's dusk,Trembles before your glory."
9. "None loves the messenger who brings bad news."
10. “Not to be born surpasses thought and speech. The second best is to have seen the light And then to go back quickly whence we came.”
11. “Numberless are the world's wonders, but noneMore wonderful than man; the stormgray seaYields to his prows, the huge crests bear him high;Earth, holy and inexhaustible, is gravenWith shining furrows where his plows have goneYear after year, the timeless labor of stallions.The lightboned birds and beasts that cling to cover,The lithe fish lighting their reaches of dim water,All are taken, tamed in the net of his mind;The lion on the hill, the wild horse windy-maned,Resign to him; and his blunt yoke has brokenThe sultry shoulders of the mountain bull.Words also, and thought as rapid as air,He fashions to his good use; statecraft is hisAnd his the skill that deflects the arrows of snow,The spears of winter rain: from every windHe has made himself secure -- from all but one:In the late wind of death he cannot stand.”
12. “One word Frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.”
13. "One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession."
14. "Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud."
15. "The long unmeasured pulse of time moves everything. There is nothing hidden that it cannot bring to light, nothing once known that may not become unknown."
16. “There is a point at which even justice does injury.”
17. “Truth is always the strongest argument.“
18. "There is no witness so terrible and no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us."
19. "To him who is in fear everything rustles."
20. "What you cannot enforce, do not command."
21. “Who seeks shall find.”
