The mind ought sometimes to be diverted that it may return to better thinking.

The only problem with seeing too much is that it makes you insane.

Everyone is bound to bear patiently the results of his own example.

An alliance with a powerful person is never safe.

That only is a disgrace to a man which he has deserved to suffer.

It is the part of a fool to give advice to others and not himself to be on his guard.

A learned man has always riches in himself.

Success tempts many to their ruin.

Witticisms please as long as we keep them within boundaries, but pushed to excess they cause offense.

Things are not always as they seem; the first appearance deceives many.

The mind ought sometimes to be diverted that it may return to better thinking.

The humble are in danger when those in power disagree.

I would rather not be a king than to forfeit my liberty.

Submit to the present evil, lest a greater one befall you.

Gentleness is the antidote for cruelty.

In outward show so splendid and so vain; 'tis but a gilded block without a brain.

The bow kept taut will quickly break, kept loosely strung, it will serve you when you need it.

Strangers he gulls, but friends make fun of him.

The intelligence of few perceives what has been carefully hidden in the recesses of the mind.

Whoever is detected in a shameful fraud is ever after not believed even if they speak the truth.

In a change of masters the poor change nothing except their master's name.

Things are not always what they seem; the first appearance deceives many; the intelligence of a few perceives what has been carefully hidden.

Witty remarks are all very well when spoken at a proper time when out of place they are offensive.

A coward boasting of his courage may deceive strangers but he is a laughing stock to those who know him.

Nor should we exclude the possibility that Islamic terrorism may begin to make common cause with Western political extremists of the far Left and far Right.

In addressing a task, one almost always has several possible options, sometimes only a few, and they may all be practical and functional. But they lack the aesthetic aspect that raises it to architecture.

All enterprises that are entered into with indiscreet zeal may be pursued with great vigor at first, but are sure to collapse in the end.

Entropy theory is indeed a first attempt to deal with global form; but it has not been dealing with structure. All it says is that a large sum of elements may have properties not found in a smaller sample of them.

Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will-whatever we may think.

The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life and one is as good as the other.

We're all like children. We may think we grow up, but to me, being grown up is death, stopping thinking, trying to find out things, going on learning.

That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.

This means that to entrust to science - or to deliberate control according to scientific principles - more than scientific method can achieve may have deplorable effects.

It may be shocking to some people in this country to realize that, without meaning to do so, they hold views in common with Hitler when they preach discrimination against other religious, racial or economic groups.

A man may be in as just possession of truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender.

In relation to a writer, most readers believe in the Double Standard: they may be unfaithful to him as often as they like, but he must never, never be unfaithful to them.

Lives of great men oft remind us as we o'er their pages turn, That we too may leave behind us - Letters that we ought to burn.

Yes, and I can sit down on a white piece of paper and work because I don't believe too much into inspiration, only I'm waiting for inspiration, work and then inspiration may come. It's a little too easy to say that.

When families observe a later, deeper stage of cult involvement they may find it necessary to consider the involvement of a professional such as myself in an intervention effort.

Life is intrinsically, well, boring and dangerous at the same time. At any given moment the floor may open up. Of course, it almost never does; that's what makes it so boring.

Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.

Some gods may cross your path, but why should gods be beautiful? They could also be frightening.

A writer may tell me that he thinks man will ultimately become an ostrich. I cannot properly contradict him.

What I'm suggesting to you is that this could be a renaissance. We may be on the cusp of a future which could provide a tremendous leap forward for humanity.

People may take a job for more money, but they often leave it for more recognition.

No aquarium, no tank in a marine land, however spacious it may be, can begin to duplicate the conditions of the sea. And no dolphin who inhabits one of those aquariums or one of those marine lands can be considered normal.

As far as I know, only a small minority of mathematicians, even of those with Platonist views, accept the idea that there may be mathematical facts which are true but unknowable.

As a member of this court I am not justified in writing my private notions of policy into the Constitution, no matter how deeply I may cherish them or how mischievous I may deem their disregard.

But the Congress has made the determination that certain kinds of information can be protected even though the American people may want to have access to information.