All Sayings

If a man puts out the eye of another man, his eye shall be put out.

Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.

Look at this life – all mystery and magic.

Grass shall never grow where my horse has trodden.

The three most addictive things in the world are heroin, carbohydrates, and a monthly salary.

Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.

You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.

Oh, many a Cup of this forbidden Wine Must drown the memory of that insolence!

You are not a fish; how do you know what makes a fish happy?

All men have a mind which cannot bear to see the suffering of others.

The nature of man is evil; his goodness is acquired.

I will make a star-chamber matter of it.

The most difficult thing is to love the world and not to despise it.

To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.

I am the most intensely and profusely social of all men, but I must have a quantity of clear, solitary, penetrating, and uncomforting observation.

I would rather be a penniless beggar than a wealthy man who forgets God.

When you have to deal with a man, you have to deal with his whole history.

I was born a slave, but nature gave me the soul of a free man.

I offer neither pay, nor quarters, nor food; I offer only hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles and death.