What passes out of one's mouth passes into a hundred ears. It is a great misfortune not to have sense enough to speak well.
Fortune favors the audacious.
It is a greater advantage to be honestly educated than honorably born.
Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another.
Many times what cannot be refuted by arguments can be parried by laughter.
Great abundance of riches cannot be gathered and kept by any man without sin.
Prevention is better than cure.
Before you sleep, read something that is exquisite, and worth remembering.
Luther was guilty of two great crimes - he struck the Pope in his crown, and the monks in their belly.
What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.
The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.
He who doesn't sin, is the greatest sinner of all.
Bidden or unbidden, God is present.
Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin.
At last concluded that no creature was more miserable than man, for that all other creatures are content with those bounds that nature set them, only man endeavors to exceed them.
No one respects a talent that is concealed.
No Man is wise at all Times, or is without his blind Side.
Eagles don't catch flies.
You must acquire the best knowledge first, and without delay; it is the height of madness to learn what you will later have to unlearn.
It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.
Love that has nothing but beauty to keep it in good health is short-lived.
I am a citizen of the world, known to all and to all a stranger.
Almost all Christians being wretchedly enslaved to blindness and ignorance, which the priests are so far from preventing or removing, that they blacken the darkness, and promote the delusion: wisely foreseeing that the people (like cows, which never give down their milk so well as when they are gently stroked), would part with less if they knew more.
I doubt if a single individual could be found from the whole of mankind free from some form of insanity. The only difference is one of degree. A man who sees a gourd and takes it for his wife is called insane because this happens to very few people.
Nothing is so foolish, they say, as for a man to stand for office and woo the crowd to win its vote, buy its support with presents, court the applause of all those fools and feel self-satisfied when they cry their approval, and then in his hour of triumph to be carried round like an effigy for the public to stare at, and end up cast in bronze to stand in the market place.
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