All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.

The traveller with empty pockets will sing in the thief 's face.

No one ever reached the worst of a vice at one leap.

There is hardly a case in which the dispute was not caused by a woman.

For women's tears are but the sweat of eyes.

I wish it, I command it. Let my will take the place of a reason.

No one ever became extremely wicked suddenly.

Our virtues are most frequently but vices disguised.

Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.

One globe seemed all too small for the youthful Alexander.

It is difficult not to write satire.

Censure acquits the raven, but pursues the dove.

Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior.

A child is owed the greatest respect; if you have ever have something disgraceful in mind, don't ignore your son's tender years.

All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.

It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.

Rare is the union of beauty and purity.

This is his first punishment, that by the verdict of his own heart no guilty man is acquitted.

Astrology reveals the will of the gods.

Every crime will bring remorse to the man who committed it.

Many commit the same crimes with a very different result. One bears a cross for his crime another a crown.

Great power which incites great envy hurls some men to destruction they are drowned in a long splendid stream of honors.

Today theres more fellowship among snakes than among mankind. Wild beasts spare those with similar markings.

Revenge is always the weak pleasure of a little and narrow mind.

Who watches the watchmen?

A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.

Luxury is more deadly than any foe.

Luxury destroys more efficiently than war.

When the mischief is done the door is shut.

So rare is the union of beauty with modesty.

One path alone leads to a life of peace. The path of virtue ..

We are too quick to imitate depraved examples.

Rare indulgence produces greater pleasure.

No one rejoices more in revenge than woman.

The tongue is the vile slave's vilest part.

The tongue is the worst part of a bad servant.

Examples of vicious courses practiced in a domestic circle corrupt more readily and more deeply when we behold them in persons in authority.

Your prayer must be for a sound mind in a sound body.

If I had to come up with something that just came to me, I think growing up in a small town, I want knowledge. I still think today, knowledge is one of the keys.

My mom took me to see Carnal Knowledge and The Wild Bunch and all these kind of movies when I was a kid.

Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college.

Contention is inseparable from creating knowledge. It is not contention we should try to avoid, but discourses that attempt to suppress contention.

Harvard is first and foremost a university and not a consulting operation, and our job here is to teach and to research and to create knowledge on Asia in conjunction and in cooperation with scholars as well as with political, intellectual, and cultural leaders in Asia.

It was very interesting for me because DNA made music without much technical knowledge at all.

But, in the name of the experimental method and out of our poor knowledge, are we really entitled to claim that everything happens by chance, to the exclusion of all other possibilities?

The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.

We must develop knowledge optimization initiatives to leverage our key learnings.

When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge.

There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the later ignorance.