Not that a promise means much to a demon - or a god.
Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last.
Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.
My father, [was] a mid-level phonecompany manager who treated my mother at best like an incompetent employee. At worst? He never beat her, but his pure, inarticulate fury would fill the house for days...
A man of sixty has spent twenty years in bed and over three years in eating.
The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.
We love being mentally strong, but we hate situations that allow us to put our mental strength to good use.
Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.
At his best, man is the noblest of all animals separated from law and justice he is the worst.
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.