Every one of us is a perfect human being, deformed by the family, the society and the culture.
To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.
The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it.
Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.
It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself.
Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance.
The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.
I'm as proud of many of the things we haven't done as the things we have done. Innovation is saying no to a thousand things.
When we were negotiating the ongoing financial period in 2013, I talked myself hoarse. London and Berlin in particular insisted on reducing the budget. So we - to the applause of German journalists - made cuts to central future-oriented areas and slashed the budget for development aid, research and technology.
And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns.
When diving to attack always leave a proportion of your formation above to act as top guard.