What matter and opportunity [for thy activity] art thou avoiding? For what else are all these things, except exercises for the reason, when it has viewed carefully and by examination into their nature the things which happen in life? Persevere then until thou shalt have made these things thy own, as the stomach which is strengthened makes all things its own, as the blazing fire makes flame and brightness out of everything that is thrown into it.
My worst flaw is that I tell secrets, my own and everybody else's.
Certainly, in taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior; for it is a prince's part to pardon.
Remember this, then, that this little compound, thyself, must either be dissolved, or they poor breath must be extinguished, or be removed and placed elsewhere.
I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room.
Who are you to judge the life I live?. I know I'm not perfect and I don't live to be. But before you start pointing fingers, make sure your hands are clean.
A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.
He would be the finer gentleman that should leave the world without having tasted of lying or pretence of any sort, or of wantonness or conceit.
Girls brought up as you were, in a very strait-laced and puritan fashion, always pant for liberty and happiness, and the happiness they have never comes up to what they imagined. Those are the girls that make bad wives.
I once said Gazza's IQ was less than his shirt number and he asked me: "What's an IQ?"