“I never saw Death before, and now I seeThat it is warring eyes in a woman's form.”

“Those who have wisdom have all:Fools with all have nothing.”

“Those are fools however learnedWho have not learned to walk with the world.”

“When the rare chance comes, seize itTo do the rare deed.”

“It is compassion, the most gracious of virtues,Which moves the world.”

“Great wealth, like a crowd at a concert,Gathers and melts.”

“Convince people that you need them, and watch what they do.”

“Folded hands may conceal a dagger --Likewise a foe's tears.”

“It is politics to please and hoodwink thoseWho flatter but despise us.”

“Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.”

“Politics determines who has the power, not who has the truth.”

“Immer wieder behauptete Unwahrheiten werden nicht zu Wahrheiten, sondern, was schlimmer ist, zu Gewohnheiten.”

“I see your point. It irks you to see anyone at all who is able to work permitted to live without working. But why do you consider work a virtue?”

“Those who have wisdom have all:Fools with all have nothing.”

“Virtue is harder to be got than knowledge of the world; and, if lost in a young man, is seldom recovered.”