1. “Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.”
2. “Until death it is all life.”
3. “It is the part of a wise man to keep himself today for tomorrow, and not to venture all his eggs in one basket.”
4. “The man who is prepared has his battle half fought.”
5. “There’s no love lost between us.”
6. “The proof of the pudding is in the eating.”
7. “Tell me thy company, and I’ll tell thee what thou art.”
8. “It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it.”
9. “When the rich feast, there are no good manners lacking.”
10. “Wit and humor do not reside in slow minds.”
11. “It is one thing to see the Devil and another to know him.”
12. “One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars; and the world was better for this.”
13. “Those who’ll play with cats must expect to be scratched.”
14. “Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.”
15. “The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.”
16. “Hunger is the best sauce in the world.”
17. “I know who I am, and I will strive to be nothing else.”
18. “For neither good nor evil can last forever; and so it follows that as evil has lasted a long time, good must now be close at hand.”
19.”All I know is that while I’m asleep, I’m never afraid, and I have no hopes, no struggles, no glories — and bless the man who invented sleep, a cloak over all human thought, food that drives away hunger, water that banishes thirst, fire that heats up cold, chill that moderates passion, and, finally, universal currency with which all things can be bought, weight and balance that brings the shepherd and the king, the fool and the wise, to the same level. There’s only one bad thing about sleep, as far as I’ve ever heard, and that is that it resembles death, since there’s very little difference between a sleeping man and a corpse.”
20. “I am the one who was born to tame you, and bring you from a state of fury into one of tranquility.”
21. “Liberty, as well as honor, man ought to preserve at the hazard of his life, for without it life is insupportable.”
22. “Love and war are all one.”
23. “When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.”
