What it lies in our power to do it lies in our power not to do.

What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.

Author: Aristotle

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Between friends there is no need of justice.

The actuality of thought is life.

Wishing to be friends is quick work but friendship is slow-ripening fruit.

What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

The only way to escape the corruptible effect of praise is to go on working.

Not I, not anyone else, can travel that road for you, you must travel it for yourself.

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.

Everything in the world is about sex, except sex. Sex is about power.