Raising children is an uncertain thing; success is reached only after a life of battle and worry.

Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.

If thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it.

The wrongdoer is more unfortunate than the man wronged.

Our sins are more easily remembered than our good deeds.

I would rather discover one true cause than gain the kingdom of Persia.

It is godlike ever to think on something beautiful and on something new.

Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence.

By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.

Raising children is an uncertain thing; success is reached only after a life of battle and worry.

Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.

Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss.

It is better to destroy one's own errors than those of others.

Now as of old the gods give men all good things, excepting only those that are baneful and injurious and useless. These, now as of old, are not gifts of the gods: men stumble into them themselves because of their own blindness and folly.

It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.

Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains.

Good means not merely not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.

Men should strive to think much and know little.

Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.

We know nothing in reality; for truth lies in an abyss.

Do not trust all men but trust men of worth the former course is silly the latter a mark of prudence.

We think there is color we think there is sweet we think there is bitter but in reality there are atoms and a void.

The offender who repents is not yet lost.

Everywhere man blames nature and fate yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character and passions his mistakes and weaknesses.

The wise man belongs to all countries for the home of a great soul is the whole world.

The laws would not prevent each man from living according to his inclination unless individuals harmed each other for envy creates the beginning of strife.

In a shared fish there are no bones.

It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all

Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul.

Men have made an idol of luck as an excuse for their own thoughtlessness.

Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.

The big battle at the end of DW isn't drawn from history, but it's influenced by history, certainly.

I didn't know at the time that the energy that I was giving off was like a battle Emcee.

It will always be a battle a day between those who want maximum change and those who want to maintain the status quo.

The legal battle against segregation is won, but the community battle goes on.

That a great battle must soon be fought no one could doubt; but, in the apparent and perhaps real absence of plan on the part of Lee, it was impossible to foretell the precise scene of the encounter.

Our brave soldiers and support personnel are engaged in a battle as important as any the United States has ever before waged, for the success of democracy in Iraq is a crucial test of the ideals this Nation was founded upon.

The anguish of the neurotic individual is the same as that of the saint. The neurotic, the saint are engaged in the same battle. Their blood flows from similar wounds. But the first one gasps and the other one gives.

There is no French town in which the wounds inflicted on the battle-field are not bleeding.

Politics is about winning. If you don't win, you don't get to put your principles into practice. Therefore, find a way to win, or sit the battle out.

A critic is someone who never actually goes to the battle, yet who afterwards comes out shooting the wounded.

Christianity is a battle not a dream.

Our main battle has always been against Israeli soldiers and Jewish settlers.

From each one of them rose separate columns of smoke, meeting in a pall overhead, and through the smoke came stabbing flashes of fire as German shells burst with thudding shocks of sound. This was the front line of battle.

As long as justice and injustice have not terminated their ever renewing fight for ascendancy in the affairs of mankind, human beings must be willing, when need is, to do battle for the one against the other.

Great, big, serious novels always get awards. If it's a battle between a great, big, serious novel and a funny novel, the funny novel is doomed.

No battle plan survives contact with the enemy.

During the past few years I have led a sometimes hard battle for German foreign policy.

We don't consider the battle has ended in Afghanistan... The battle has begun and its fires are picking up. These fires will reach the White House, because it is the center of injustice and tyranny.