Charles de Montesquieu

We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.

I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve.

Prudence is not hesitation, procrastination, or moderation. It is not driving in the middle of the road. It is not the way of ambivalence, indecision, or safety.

I'm not afraid of wanting money at all. Money will give me more power to do things that are truer to my spirit than what I'm already doing.

Buddhism has in it no idea of there being a moral law laid down by somekind of cosmic lawgiver.