Some Sage-Like words of advice by which to live when morals and ethics fail you:

“The greatest pleasure is to vanquish your enemies and chase them before you, to rob them of their wealth and see those dear to them bathed in tears, to ride their horses and clasp to your bosom their wives and daughters.”

– Gengis Khan

“In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. “

– Martin Luther King Jr.

“I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.”

– Xenocrates

“If you haven’t got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.”

– Alice Roosevelt Longworth

“It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both. “

– Niccolo Machiavelli

“To know a person’s religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.”

– Eric Hoffer

“Heresy is only another word for freedom of thought.”

-Graham

“Any guy can give you the key to his bedroom, but a real man gives you the key to his heart. “

– Leslie McKey.

“Appreciation is a wonderful thing; it makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.”

-Voltaire

“We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.”

-Joseph Roux

“When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.”

-Ernest Hemingway

“The enemy is anybody who’s going to get you killed, no matter which side he’s on.”

-Joseph Heller ,Catch 22

“The pious pretense that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing.”

-Aleister Crowley

“Hope in reality is the worst of all evils, because it prolongs the torments of man. “

-Friedrich Nietzsche

“There’s no such thing as an ex-junkie.”

– Henry Rollins