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“What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.”
Aristotle
“Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.”
Honore de Balzac
“Love is a game in which one always cheats.”
Honore de Balzac
“It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.”
Honore de Balzac
“There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.”
Honore de Balzac
“Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.”
Honore de Balzac
“Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love.”
Honore de Balzac
“The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.”
Moliere
“That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.”
Aldous Huxley
“Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.”
Aesop
“He who throws away a friend is as bad as he who throws away his life.”
Sophocles
“I demolish my bridges behind me - then there is no choice but forward.”
Fridtjof Nansen
“Ignorance is always afraid of change.”
Jawaharlal Nehru
“There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.”
Jawaharlal Nehru
“Tears at times have the weight of speech.”
Ovid
“It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”
William Shakespeare
“The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones”
William Shakespeare
“Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.”
William Shakespeare
“When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.”
William Shakespeare
“Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.”
William Shakespeare
“An overflow of good converts to bad.”
William Shakespeare
“Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.”
William Shakespeare
“Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.”
William Shakespeare
“If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me.”
William Shakespeare
“Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.”
William Shakespeare
“What's done can't be undone.”
William Shakespeare
“If you have tears, prepare to shed them now.”
William Shakespeare
“There is no darkness but ignorance.”
William Shakespeare
“Death is a fearful thing.”
William Shakespeare
