Top quotes by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief. Votes: 26

As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved. Votes: 25

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living. Votes: 22

Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end. Votes: 19

I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity. Votes: 18

The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words. Votes: 15

Nothing is more unreliable than the populace, nothing more obscure than human intentions, nothing more deceptive than the whole electoral system. Votes: 15

If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure to be wrested from me while I live. Votes: 14

Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends. Votes: 13

The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct. Votes: 13

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others. Votes: 11

The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow. Votes: 11

Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defense can be just. Votes: 11

No one can give you better advice than yourself. Votes: 11

In a disordered mind, as in a disordered body, soundness of health is impossible. Votes: 11

Sweet is the memory of past troubles. Votes: 10

Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom. Votes: 9

An unjust peace is better than a just war. Votes: 9

We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue. Votes: 9

Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth. Votes: 8

Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself. Votes: 8

Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature. Votes: 7

Take from a man his reputation for probity, and the more shrewd and clever he is, the more hated and mistrusted he becomes. Votes: 7

Laws are silent in time of war. Votes: 6

If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains. Votes: 6

Rather leave the crime of the guilty unpunished than condemn the innocent. Votes: 4

I criticize by creation - not by finding fault. Votes: 3

In time of war the laws are silent. Votes: 2

No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration. Votes: 1

It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error. Votes: 1

True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long. Votes: 0

We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names. Votes: 0

Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act. Votes: 0

Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty. Votes: 0

Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts. Votes: 0

Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children? Votes: 0

The long time to come when I shall not exist has more effect on me than this short present time, which nevertheless seems endless. Votes: 0

Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability. Votes: 0

I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability. Votes: 0

What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk. Votes: 0

That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place. Votes: 0

A man's own manner and character is what most becomes him. Votes: 0

If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it. Votes: 0

Ability without honor is useless. Votes: 0

Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense. Votes: 0

I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money! Old people remember what interests them: the dates fixed for their lawsuits, and the names of their debtors and creditors. Votes: 0

I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know. Votes: 0

Hatreds not vowed and concealed are to be feared more than those openly declared. Votes: 0

For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends. Votes: 0

One who sees the Supersoul accompanying the individual soul in all bodies and who understands that neither the soul nor the Supersoul is ever destroyed, actually sees. Votes: 0

Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen. Just as the soul feeds the body, so God gives food to the world. Votes: 0

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need. Votes: 0

When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff. Votes: 0

Even if you have nothing to write, write and say so. Votes: 0

More law, less justice. Votes: 0

The more laws, the less justice. Votes: 0

In a republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not have the predominant power. Votes: 0

Justice is the set and constant purpose which gives every man his due. Votes: 0

No sane man will dance. Votes: 0

There are more men ennobled by study than by nature. Votes: 0

No obligation to do the impossible is binding. Votes: 0

He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason. Votes: 0

Nothing stands out so conspicuously, or remains so firmly fixed in the memory, as something which you have blundered. Votes: 0

It shows nobility to be willing to increase your debt to a man to whom you already owe much. Votes: 0

It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own. Votes: 0

In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body. Votes: 0

Freedom is a possession of inestimable value. Votes: 0

You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself. Votes: 0

A man of courage is also full of faith. Votes: 0

In times of war, the law falls silent.Silent enim leges inter arma Votes: 0

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability. Votes: 0

There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it. Votes: 0

The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured. Votes: 0

Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either. Votes: 0

There are gems of thought that are ageless and eternal. Votes: 0

A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. Votes: 0

It is disgraceful when the passers-by exclaim, "O ancient house! alas, how unlike is thy present master to thy former one. Votes: 0

A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all the other virtues. [Lat., Gratus animus est una virtus non solum maxima, sed etiam mater virtutum onmium reliquarum.] Votes: 0

Nature abhors annihilation. Votes: 0

What an ugly beast the ape, and how like us. Votes: 0

Reason should direct, and appetite obey. Votes: 0

Life is short, but art lives forever. Votes: 0

Like associates with like. Votes: 0

It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness. Votes: 0

It is foolish to pluck out one's hair for sorrow, as if grief could be assuaged by baldness. [Lat., Stultum est in luctu capillum sibi evellere, quasi calvito maeror levaretur.] Votes: 0

No man can be brave who thinks pain the greatest evil; nor temperate, who considers pleasure the highest good. Votes: 0

No man can be brave who thinks pain the greatest evil; nor temperate, who considers pleasure the highest god. [Lat., Fortis vero, dolorem summum malum judicans; aut temperans, voluptatem summum bonum statuens, esse certe nullo modo potest.] Votes: 0

Six mistakes mankind keeps making century after century: Believing that personal gain is made by crushing others; Worrying about things that cannot be changed or corrected; Insisting that a thing is impossible because we cannot accomplish it; Refusing to set aside trivial preferences; Neglecting development and refinement of the mind; Attempting to compel others to believe and live as we do. Votes: 0

A letter does not blush. Votes: 0

Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator. Votes: 0

Brevity is a great charm of eloquence. Votes: 0

Work makes a callus against grief. Votes: 0

The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil. Votes: 0

When trying a case [the famous judge] L. Cassius never failed to inquire "Who gained by it?" Man's character is such that no one undertakes crimes without hope of gain. Votes: 0

Lucius Cassius ille quem populus Romanus verissimum et sapientissimum iudicem putabat identidem in causis quaerere solebat 'cui bono' fuisset. The famous Lucius Cassius, whom the Roman people used to regard as a very honest and wise judge, was in the habit of asking, time and again, 'To whose benefit? Votes: 0

The well-known old remark of Cato, who used to wonder how two soothsayers could look one another in the face without laughing. Votes: 0

When confronted by a hungry wolf, it is unwise to goad the beast, as Cato would have us do. But it is equally unwise to imagine the snarling animal a friend and offer your hand, as Pompey does." "Perhaps you would have us climb a tree! Votes: 0

The contemplation of celestial things will make a man both speak and think more sublimely and magnificently when he descends to human affairs. Votes: 0

Whatever that be which thinks, understands, wills, and acts, it is something celestial and divine. Votes: 0

Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive. Votes: 0

Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage. Votes: 0

We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members. Votes: 0

Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education. Votes: 0

These studies are a spur to the young, a delight to the old: an ornament in prosperity, a consoling refuge in adversity; they are pleasure for us at home, and no burden abroad; they stay up with us at night, they accompany us when we travel, they are with us in our country visits. Votes: 0

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation. Votes: 0

The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions. Votes: 0

Not to be covetous, is money; not to be a purchaser, is a revenue. Votes: 0

This is the truth: as from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again. Votes: 0

The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend. Votes: 0

Justice is the crowning glory of the virtues. Votes: 0

It is a crime to put a Roman citizen in chains, it is an enormity to flog one, sheer murder to slay one: what, then, shall I say of crucifixion? It is impossible to find the word for such an abomination. Votes: 0

Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body. Votes: 0

Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom. Votes: 0

For out of such an ungoverned populace one is usually chosen as a leader, someone bold and unscrupulous who curries favor with the people by giving them other men's property. To such a man the protection of public office is given, and continually renewed. He emerges as a tyrant over the very people who raised him to power. Votes: 0

While all other things are uncertain, evanescent, and ephemeral, virtue alone is fixed with deep roots; it can neither be overthrown by any violence or moved from its place. Votes: 0

Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain. Votes: 0

It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment. Votes: 0

Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion. Votes: 0

Dogs wait for us faithfully. Votes: 0

In doubtful cases the more liberal interpretation must always be preferred. Votes: 0

People do not understand what a great revenue economy is. Votes: 0

As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind. Votes: 0

They are eloquent who can speak low things acutely, and of great things with dignity, and of moderate things with temper. Votes: 0

He is an eloquent man who can treat humble subjects with delicacy, lofty things impressively, and moderate things temperately. Votes: 0

Neither can embellishments of language be found without arrangement and expression of thoughts, nor can thoughts be made to shine without the light of language. Votes: 0

Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind. Votes: 0

For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives. Votes: 0

Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide. Votes: 0

Exercise and temperance can preserve something of our early strength even in old age. Votes: 0

It is exercise alone that supports the spirits, and keeps the mind in vigor. Votes: 0

There is no treasure the which may be compared unto a faithful friend; Gold some decayeth, and worldly wealth consumeth, and wasteth in the winde; But love once planted in a perfect and pure minde indureth weale and woe; The frownes of fortune, come they never so unkinde, cannot the same overthrowe. Votes: 0

A man does not wonder at what he sees frequently, even though he be ignorant of the reason. If anything happens which he has not seen before, he calls it a prodigy. Votes: 0

Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Votes: 0

If a man aspires to the highest place, it is no dishonor to him to halt at the second. Votes: 0

The aim of forensic oratory is to teach, to delight, to move. Votes: 0

This wine is forty years old. It certainly doesn't show its age. Votes: 0

To freemen, threats are impotent. [Lat., Nulla enim minantis auctoritas apud liberos est.] Votes: 0

The world has not yet learned the riches of frugality. Votes: 0

The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil. Votes: 0

Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth. Votes: 0

It is not enough merely possess virtue, as if it were an art; it should be practiced. Votes: 0

Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things. Votes: 0

The administration of government, like a guardianship ought to be directed to the good of those who confer, not of those who receive the trust. Votes: 0

History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time; it illumines reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life and brings us tidings of antiquities. Votes: 0

Let flattery, the handmaid of the vices, be far removed (from friendship). [Lat., Assentatio, vitiorum adjutrix, procul amoveatur.] Votes: 0

I am pleased to be praised by a man so praised as you, father. [Words used by Hector.] [Lat., Laetus sum Laudari me abs te, pater, laudato viro.] Votes: 0

Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live. Votes: 0

Hmm... That's like telling you about the cold of space, or terror of midnight. Sithis is all those things. He is... the Void. Votes: 0

The precepts of the law are these: to live honestly, to injure no one, and to give everyone else his due. Votes: 0

There is no praise in being upright, where no one can, or tries to corrupt you. Votes: 0

When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank. Votes: 0

Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself. Votes: 0

In honorable dealing you should consider what you intended, not what you said or thought. Votes: 0

What is permissible is not always honorable. Votes: 0

They who say that we should love our fellow-citizens but not foreigners, destroy the universal brotherhood of mankind, with which benevolence and justice would perish forever. Votes: 0

Hunger is the best sauce. Votes: 0

I hear Socrates saying that the best seasoning for food is hunger; for drink, thirst. Votes: 0

The devil finds work for idle hands to do. Better to reign in the hell than serve in heaven. We are in bondage to the law in order that we may be free. Votes: 0

The greatest incitement to guilt is the hope of sinning with impunity. Votes: 0

Scurrility has no object in view but incivility; if it is uttered from feelings of petulance, it is mere abuse; if it is spoken in a joking manner, it may be considered raillery. Votes: 0

No well-informed person has declared a change of opinion to be inconstancy. Votes: 0

Our minds possess by nature an insatiable desire to know the truth. Votes: 0

In friendship we find nothing false or insincere; everything is straight forward, and springs from the heart. Votes: 0

Nothing is more disgraceful than insincerity. Votes: 0

A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation. Votes: 0

A sensual and intemperate youth hands over a worn-out body to old age. [Lat., Libidinosa etenim et intemperans adolescentiam effoetum corpus tradit senectuti.] Votes: 0

The best interpreter of the law is custom. Votes: 0

The face is a picture of the mind with the eyes as its interpreter. Votes: 0

Never injure a friend, even in jest. Votes: 0

Softly! Softly! I want none but the judges to hear me. The Jews have already gotten me into a fine mess, as they have many other gentleman. I have no desire to furnish further grist for their mills. Votes: 0

The Jews belong to a dark and repulsive force. One knows how numerous this clique is, how they stick together and what power they exercise through their unions. They are a nation of rascals and deceivers. Votes: 0

I cease not to advocate peace; even though unjust it is better than the most just war. Votes: 0

The foundation of justice is good faith. Votes: 0

If we lose affection and kindliness from our life: we lose all that gives it charm. Votes: 0

I hope that the memory of our friendship will be everlasting. Votes: 0

Let war yield to peace, laurels to paeans. Votes: 0

Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error. Votes: 0

Men decide far more problems by hate, love, lust, rage, sorrow, joy, hope, fear, illusion or some other inward emotion, than by reality, authority, any legal standard, judicial precedent, or statute. Votes: 0

We must not say every mistake is a foolish one. Votes: 0

The diseases of the mind are more and more destructive than those of the body. [Lat., Morbi perniciores pluresque animi quam corporis.] Votes: 0

The magistrates are the ministers for the laws, the judges their interpreters, the rest of us are servants of the law, that we all may be free. Votes: 0

Study carefully, the character of the one you recommend, lest their misconduct bring you shame. Votes: 0

For a tear is quickly dried, especially when shed for the misfortunes of others. Votes: 0

Wars are to be undertaken in order that it may be possible to live in peace without molestation. Votes: 0

The hours pass and the days and the months and the years, and the past time never returns. Votes: 0

If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter. Votes: 0

Laughing, laughing, laughing, laughing! It is the jester! A voice from the Void, to cheer poor Cicero! I accept your gift, dearest Night Mother. Thank you for my laughter. Thank you for my friend. Votes: 0

But the Night Mother is mother to all! It is her voice we follow! Her will! Would you dare risk disobedience? And surely... punishment? Votes: 0

In a promise, what you thought, and not what you said, is always to be considered. Votes: 0

Law stands mute in the midst of arms. Votes: 0

No sensible man (among the many things that have been written on this kind) ever imputed inconsistency to another for changing his mind. [Lat., Nemo doctus unquam (multa autem de hoc genere scripta sunt) mutationem consili inconstantiam dixit esse.] Votes: 0

No one sees what is before his feet: we all gaze at the stars. [Lat., Quod est ante pedes nemo spectat: coeli scrutantur plagas.] Votes: 0

No man was ever great without divine inspiration. [Lat., Nemo vir magnus aliquo afflatu divino unquam fuit.] Votes: 0

If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started. Votes: 0

There are no true friends in politics. Votes: 0

True nobility is exempt from fear. Votes: 0

Diseases of the soul are more dangerous and more numerous than those of the body. Votes: 0

He who obeys with modesty appears worthy of being some day a commander. Votes: 0

Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age. Votes: 0

You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long. [Lat., Mature fieri senem, si diu velis esses senex.] Votes: 0

Like, according to the old proverb, naturally goes with like. Votes: 0

Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable. Votes: 0

The first law for the historian is that he shall never dare utter an untruth. The second is that he shall suppress nothing that is true. Moreover, there shall be no suspicion of partiality in his writing, or of malice. Votes: 0

For no phase of life, whether public or private, whether in business or in the home, whether one is working on what concerns oneself alone or dealing with another, can be without its moral duty; on the discharge of such duties depends all that is morally right, and on their neglect all that is morally wrong in life. Votes: 0

No phase of life, whether public or private, can be free from duty. Votes: 0

Before beginning, plan carefully. Votes: 0

We are all excited by the love of praise, and the noblest are most influenced by glory. Votes: 0

Whatever is done without ostentation, and without the people being witnesses of it, is, in my opinion, most praiseworthy: not that the public eye should be entirely avoided, for good actions desire to be placed in the light; but notwithstanding this, the greatest theater for virtue is conscience. Votes: 0

True glory strikes root, and even extends itself; all false pretensions fall as do flowers, nor can any feigned thing be lasting. Votes: 0

Probability is the very guide of life. Votes: 0

Let a man practice the profession which he best knows. Votes: 0

I shall always consider the best guesser the best prophet. Votes: 0

It is graceful in a man to think and to speak with propriety, to act with deliberation, and in every occurrence of life to find out and persevere in the truth. On the other hand, to be imposed upon, to mistake, to falter, and to be deceived, is as ungraceful as to rave or to be insane. Votes: 0

Friendship, on the other hand, serves a great host of different purposes all at the same time. In whatever direction you turn, it still remains yours. No barrier can shut it out. It can never be untimely; it can never be in the way. We need friendship all the time, just as much as we need the proverbial prime necessities of life, fire and water. Votes: 0

To stumble twice against the same stone, is a proverbial disgrace. [Lat., Culpa enim illa, bis ad eundem, vulgari reprehensa proverbio est.] Votes: 0

I prefer silent prudence to loquacious folly. Votes: 0

Prudence is the knowledge of things to be sought, and those to be shunned. Votes: 0

Care should be taken that the punishment does not exceed the guilt; and also that some men do not suffer for offenses for which others are not even indicted. Votes: 0

Let the punishment be equal with the offence. [Lat., Noxiae poena par esto.] Votes: 0

The purpose of education is to free the student from the tyranny of the present. Votes: 0

Quacks pretend to cure other men's disorders, but fail to find a remedy for their own. Votes: 0

Nothing quite new is perfect. Votes: 0

Rashness attends youth, as prudence does old age. Votes: 0

A life of peace, purity and refinement leads to a calm and untroubled old age. Votes: 0

The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends. Votes: 0

As you have sown so shall you reap. Votes: 0

Thrift is of great revenue. Votes: 0

True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long Votes: 0

Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children Votes: 0

Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide Votes: 0

for the mere act of thinking a course expedient, when it is morally wrong, is demoralizing Votes: 0

The law in Athens is true in Rome Votes: 0

In honorable dealing you should consider what you intended, not what you said or thought Votes: 0

Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator Votes: 0

Brevity is a great charm of eloquence Votes: 0

Give me a young man in whom there is some- thing of the old, and an old man with something of the young: guided so, a man may grow old in body, but never in mind Votes: 0

The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal. Votes: 0

Peace is liberty in tranquillity. Votes: 0

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need."(Si hortum in bibliotheca habes, deerit nihil.) Votes: 0

Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man's character is, the better it fits him. Votes: 0

What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine. Votes: 0

Dum spiro, spero Votes: 0

Few are those who wish to be endowed with virtue rather than to seem so. Votes: 0

Nescire autem quid antequam natus sis acciderit, id est semper esse puerum. (To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.) Votes: 0

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history? Votes: 0

We forget our pleasures, we remember our sufferings. Votes: 0

To be ignorant of what happened before you were born is to live the life of a child forever. For what is a man's life, unless woven into the life of our ancestors by the memory of past deeds? Votes: 0

To be ignorant of history is to remain always a child. Votes: 0

Here is a man whose life and actions the world has already condemned - yet whose enormous fortune...has already brought him acquittal! Votes: 0

Si hortum in bibliotheca habes, nihil deeritHe who has a garden and a library wants for nothing Votes: 0

For there is but one essential justice which cements society, and one law which establishes this justice. This law is right reason, which is the true rule of all commandments and prohibitions. Whoever neglects this law, whether written or unwritten, is necessarily unjust and wicked. Votes: 0

For he (Cato) gives his opinion as if he were in Plato's Republic, not in Romulus' cesspool. Votes: 0

The sinews of war are infinite money. Votes: 0

When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's [children's] minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind. Votes: 0

What is morally wrong can never be advantageous, even when it enables you to make some gain that you believe to be to your advantage. The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious. Votes: 0

I criticize by creation, not by finding fault. Votes: 0

We must not only obtain Wisdom: we must enjoy her. Votes: 0

My dear Scipio and Laelius. Men, of course, who have no resources in themselves for securing a good and happy life find every age burdensome. But those who look for all happiness from within can never think anything bad which Nature makes inevitable. Votes: 0

Time obliterates the fictions of opinion and confirms the decisions of nature. Votes: 0

The eyes like sentinel occupy the highest place in the body. Votes: 0

The safety of the people shall be the highest law. Votes: 0

In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures. Votes: 0

In ancient times music was the foundation of all the sciences. Education was begun with music with the persuasion that nothing could be expected of a man who was ignorant of music. Votes: 0

Any man may make a mistake; none but a fool will stick to it. Second thoughts are best as the proverb says. [Lat., Cujusvis hominis est errare; nullius, nisi insipientis, in errore perseverae. Posteriores enim cogitationes (ut aiunt) sapientiores solent esse.] Votes: 0

Any man may make a mistake; none but a fool will stick to it. Second thoughts are best as the proverb says. Votes: 0

The name of peace is sweet, and the thing itself is beneficial, but there is a great difference between peace and servitude. Peace is freedom in tranquillity, servitude is the worst of all evils, to be resisted not only by war, but even by death. Votes: 0

Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude. Votes: 0

Excessive liberty leads both nations and individuals into excessive slavery. [Lat., Nimia libertas et populis et privatis in nimiam servitutem cadit.] Votes: 0

Strict law is often great injustice. Votes: 0

These (literary) studies are the food of youth, and consolation of age; they adorn prosperity, and are the comfort and refuge of adversity; they are pleasant at home, and are no incumbrance abroad; they accompany us at night, in our travels, and in our rural retreats. Votes: 0

Superstition is an unreasoning fear of God. Votes: 0

Without your knowledge, the eyes and ears of many will see and watch you, as they have done already. Votes: 0

The swan is not without cause dedicated to Apollo, because foreseeing his happiness in death, he dies with singing and pleasure. Votes: 0

Death darkens his eyes, and unplumes his wings, Yet the sweetest song is the last he sings: Live so, my Love, that when death shall come, Swan-like and sweet it may waft thee home. Votes: 0

This, therefore, is a law not found in books, but written on the fleshly tablets of the heart, which we have not learned from man, received or read, but which we have caught up from Nature herself, sucked in and imbibed; the knowledge of which we were not taught, but for which we were made; we received it not by education, but by intuition. Votes: 0

Old age is by nature rather talkative. Votes: 0

Old age by nature is rather talkative. Votes: 0

Nothing dries sooner than a tear. Votes: 0

A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue but the parent of all the other virtues. As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words but to live by them. Votes: 0

A thankful heart is the greatest virtue. Votes: 0

What is dishonestly got vanishes in profligacy. Votes: 0

To the sick, while there is life there is hope. [Lat., Aegroto dum anima est, spes est.] Votes: 0

Cannot people realize how large an income is thrift? Votes: 0

Thrift is a great revenue. Votes: 0

Let arms yield to the toga, let the [victor's] laurel yield to the [orator's] tongue. Votes: 0

Yield, ye arms, to the toga; to civic praise, ye laurels. Votes: 0

A nation can survive its fools, even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within....for the traitor appears not to be a traitor...he rots the soul of a nation...he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. Votes: 0

No wise man ever thought that a traitor should be trusted. Votes: 0

A happy life consists in tranquility of mind. Votes: 0

A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. Votes: 0

The spirit is the true self. Votes: 0

The spirit is the true self. The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. Votes: 0

Trust no one unless you have eaten much salt with him. Votes: 0

By doubting we come at truth. Votes: 0

Freedom is a man's natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law. Votes: 0

I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war. Votes: 0

There is no more sure tie between friends than when they are united in their objects and wishes. Votes: 0

Unraveling the web of Penelope. Votes: 0

While there's life, there's hope. Votes: 0

Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak. Votes: 0

Orators are most vehement when they have the weakest cause, as men get on horseback when they cannot walk. Votes: 0

Nothing contributes to the entertainment of the reader more, than the change of times and the vicissitudes of fortune. Votes: 0

I am of the opinion which you have always held, that "viva voce" voting at elections is the best method. [Lat., Nam ego in ista sum sententia, qua te fuisse semper scio, nihil ut feurit in suffragiis voce melius.] Votes: 0

It shows a weak mind not to bear prosperity as well as adversity with moderation. Votes: 0

It is a shameful thing to be weary of inquiry when what we search for is excellent. Votes: 0

Let the welfare of the people be the ultimate law. Votes: 0

It might be pardonable to refuse to defend some men, but to defend them negligently is nothing short of criminal. Votes: 0

There is wickedness in the intention of wickedness, even though it be not perpetrated in the act. Votes: 0

History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time... Votes: 0

Socrates, indeed, when he was asked of what country he called himself, said, "Of the world"; for he considered himself an inhabitant and a citizen of the whole world. Votes: 0

A dissolute and intemperate youth hands down the body to old age in a worn-out state. Votes: 0

Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book. Votes: 0

There are some duties we owe even to those who have wronged us. There is, after all, a limit to retribution and punishment. Votes: 0

Let arms give place to the robe, and the laurel of the warriors yield to the tongue of the orator. Votes: 0

No poet or orator has ever existed who believed there was any better than himself. Votes: 0

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. Votes: 0

Hatred is inveterate anger. Votes: 0

The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn. Votes: 0

The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk. Votes: 0

Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error. Votes: 0

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy. Votes: 0

Laws should be interpreted in a liberal sense so that their intention may be preserved. Votes: 0

The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust. Votes: 0

According to the law of nature it is only fair that no one should become richer through damages and injuries suffered by another. Votes: 0

I never admire another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own. Votes: 0

Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money. Votes: 0

He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing. Votes: 0

A tear dries quickly when it is shed for troubles of others. Votes: 0

All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be brief. Votes: 0

What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes. Votes: 0

The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed. Votes: 0

"What greater gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth?" Votes: 0

. . . for until that God who rules all the region of the sky . . . has freed you from the fetters of your body, you cannot gain admission here. Men were created with the understanding that they were to look after that sphere called Earth, which you see in the middle of the temple. Minds have been given to them out of the eternal fires you call fixed stars and planets, those spherical solids which, quickened with divine minds, journey through their circuits and orbits with amazing speed. Votes: 0

...the counsels of the Divine Mind had some glimpse of truth when they said that men are born in order to suffer the penalty for sins committed in a former life. Votes: 0

A bachelor's bed is the most pleasant. Votes: 0

A bureaucrat is the most despicable of men, though he is needed as vultures are needed, but one hardly admires vultures whom bureaucrats so strangely resemble. I have yet to meet a bureaucrat who was not petty, dull, almost witless, crafty or stupid, an oppressor or a thief, a holder of little authority in which he delights, as a boy delights in possessing a vicious dog. Who can trust such creatures? Votes: 0

A careful physician . . . before he attempts to administer a remedy to his patient, must investigate not only the malady of the man he wishes to cure, but also his habits when in health, and his physical constitution. Votes: 0

A community is like the ones who govern it. Votes: 0

A friend is, as it were, a second self. Votes: 0

A good man will not lie, although it be for his profit. Votes: 0

A good orator is pointed and impassioned. Votes: 0

A home without books is a body without soul. Votes: 0

A liar is not believed even though he tell the truth. Votes: 0

A man has no enemy worse than himself. Votes: 0

A man has no worse enemy than himself. Votes: 0

A man would have no pleasures in discovering all the beauties of the universe, even in heaven itself, unless he had a partner to whom he might communicate his joys. Votes: 0

A mental stain can neither be blotted out by the passage of time nor washed away by any waters. Votes: 0

A person who is wise does nothing against their will, nothing with sighing or under coercion. Votes: 0

A perverse temper and fretful disposition will make any state of life whatsoever unhappy. Votes: 0

A s laws multiply, injustice increases. Votes: 0

A true friend is a sort of second self. Votes: 0

A war is never undertaken by the ideal State, except in defense of its honor or its safety. Votes: 0

A wise man does nothing by constraint. Votes: 0

A youth of sensuality and intemperance delivers over to old age a worn-out body. Votes: 0

Action is the language of the body and should harmonize with the spirit within. Votes: 0

Advice is judged by results, not by intentions. Votes: 0

After victory, you have more enemies. Votes: 0

All action is of the mind and the mirror of the mind is the face, its index the eyes. Votes: 0

All great men are partially inspired. Votes: 0

All I can do is to urge on you to regard friendship as the greatest thing in the world; for there is nothing which so fits in with our nature, or is so exactly what we want in prosperity or adversity. Votes: 0

All literature, all philosophical treatises, all the voices of antiquity are full of examples for imitation, which would all lie unseen in darkness without the light of literature.. Votes: 0

All men have a feeling, that they would rather you told them a civil lie than give them a point blank refusal.... If you make a promise, the thing is still uncertain, depends on a future day, and concerns but few people; but if you refuse you alienate people to a certainty and at once, and many people too. Votes: 0

All places are filled with fools. [Lat., Stultorum plenea sunt omnia.] Votes: 0

All soils are not fertile. Votes: 0

All the arts, which have a tendency to raise man in the scale of being, have a certain common band of union, and are connected, if I may be allowed to say so, by blood-relationship with one another. Votes: 0

All things are full of God. Votes: 0

All things tend to corrupt perverted minds. Votes: 0

Always the same thing. Votes: 0

An acute first-class brain is the finest asset anyone can have- and, if we want to be happy, it is an asset we must exploit to the uttermost. Votes: 0

An agreement of rash men (a conspiracy). Votes: 0

An ancient custom obtains force of nature. Votes: 0

An army abroad is of little use unless there are prudent counsels at home. [Lat., Parvi enim sunt foris arma, nisi est consilium domi.] Votes: 0

An innocent man, if accused, can be acquitted; a guilty man, unless accused, cannot be condemned. It is, however, more advantageous to absolve an innocent than not to prosecute a guilty man. Votes: 0

An intemperate, disorderly youth will bring to old age, a feeble and worn-out body. Votes: 0

An old man with something of the youth in him, may feel young in mind and heart only. Votes: 0

Anger should never appear in awarding punishment. Votes: 0

Any man can make a mistake; only a fool keeps making the same one. Votes: 0

Anyone may fairly seek his own advantage, but no one has a right to do so at another's expense. Votes: 0

Anyone who has got a book collection/library and a garden wants for nothing. Votes: 0

Apollo, sacred guard of earth's true core, Whence first came frenzied, wild prophetic word... Votes: 0

Aristoteles quidem ait: 'Omnes ingeniosos melancholicos esse.' Aristotle says that all men of genius are melancholy. Votes: 0

Armed forces abroad are of little value unless there is prudent counsel at home Votes: 0

Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature. Votes: 0

As a philosopher, I have a right to ask for a rational explanation of religious faith. Votes: 0

As I breathe, I hope. Votes: 0

As I give thought to the matter, I find four causes for the apparent misery of old age; first it withdraws us from active accomplishments; second, it renders the body less powerful; third, it deprives us of almost all forms of enjoyment; fourth, it Votes: 0

As in the case of wines that improve with age, the oldest friendships ought to be the most delightful. Votes: 0

As the grace of man is in the mind, so the beauty of the mind is eloquence. Votes: 0

As the scale of the balance must give way to the weight that presses it down, so the mind must of necessity yield to demonstration. Votes: 0

As thou sowest, so shalt thou reap. Votes: 0

Be a pattern to others and then all will go well. Votes: 0

Be sure that it is not you that is mortal, but only your body. For that man whom your outward form reveals is not yourself; the spirit is the true self, not that physical figure which and be pointed out by your finger. Votes: 0

Because all the sick do not recover, therefore medicine is not an art. Votes: 0

Before beginning, prepare carefully. Votes: 0

Books are the food of youth, the delight of old age; the ornament of prosperity, the refuge and comfort of adversity; a delight at home, and no hindrance abroad; companions by night, in traveling, in the country. Votes: 0

Borrowing from Peter to pay Paul. Votes: 0

But if you should take the bond of goodwill out of the universe no house or city could stand, nor would even the tillage of the fields abide. If that statement is not clear, then you may understand how great is the power of friendship and of concord from a consideration of the results of enmity and disagreement. For what house is so strong, or what state so enduring that it cannot be utterly overthrown by animosities and division? Votes: 0

But in every matter the consensus of opinion among all nations is to be regarded as the law of nature. Votes: 0

By Hercules! I prefer to err with Plato, whom I know how much you value, than to be right in the company of such men. Votes: 0

Calamus fortior gladio. Votes: 0

Can any one find in what condition his body will be, I do not say a year hence, but this evening? Votes: 0

Can there be greater foolishness than the respect you pay to people collectively when you despise them individually? Votes: 0

Can you also, Lucullus, affirm that there is any power united with wisdom and prudence which has made, or, to use your own expression, manufactured man? What sort of a manufacture is that? Where is it exercised? when? why? how? Votes: 0

Care must be taken that the punishment does not exceed the offence. Votes: 0

Certain signs are the forerunners of certain events. Votes: 0

Certain signs precede certain events. Votes: 0

Cicero is dead! Cicero is born! The laughter has filled me, filled me so very completely. I am the laughter. I am the jester. The soul that has served as my constant companion for so long has breached the veil of the Void finally and forever. It is now in me. It is me. The world has seen the last of Cicero the man. Behold Cicero, Fool of Hearts - laughter incarnate! Votes: 0

Civilized people are taught by logic, barbarians, by necessity, communities by tradition; and the lesson inculcated even in wild beasts by nature itself. They learn that they have to defend their own bodies and persons lives from violence of any and every kind by all means within their power. Votes: 0

Come now: Do we really think that the gods are everywhere called by the same names by which they are addressed by us? But the gods have as many names as there are languages among humans. For it is not with the gods as with you: you are Velleius wherever you go, but Vulcan is not Vulcan in Italy and in Africa and in Spain. Votes: 0

Constant practice devoted to one subject often outdoes both intelligence and skill. - Assiduus usus uni rei deditus et ingenium et artem saepe vincit Votes: 0

Courage is virtue which champions the cause of right. Votes: 0

Crimes are not to be measured by the issue of events, but by the bad intentions of men. Votes: 0

Death approaches, which is always impending like the stone over Tantalus: then comes superstition with which he who is imbued can never have peace of mind. [Lat., Accedit etiam mors, quae quasi saxum Tantalo semper impendit: tum superstitio, qua qui est imbutus quietus esse numquam potest.] Votes: 0

Death is dreadful to the man whose all is extinguished with his life; but not to him whose glory never can die. Votes: 0

Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable. Votes: 0

Democritus maintains that there can be no great poet without a spite of madness. Votes: 0

Diligence which, as it avails in all things, is also of the utmost moment in pleading causes. Diligence is to be particularly cultivated by us; it is to be constantly exerted; it is capable of effecting almost everything. Votes: 0

Dissimulation creeps gradually into the minds of men. Votes: 0

Do not blame Caesar, blame the people of Rome who have so enthusiastically acclaimed and adored him and rejoiced in their loss of freedom and danced in his path and gave him triumphal processions. Blame the people who hail him when he speaks in the Forum of the 'new, wonderful good society' which shall now be Rome, interpreted to mean 'more money, more ease, more security, more living fatly at the expense of the industrious.' Votes: 0

Do not hold the delusion that your advancement is accomplished by crushing others. Votes: 0

Do nothing twice over. Votes: 0

Dum Spiro, spero- As long as I breathe, I hope. Votes: 0

Each part of life has its own pleasures. Each has its own abundant harvest, to be garnered in season. We may grow old in body, but we need never grow old in mind and spirit. No one is as old as to think he or she cannot live one more year. Votes: 0

Economy is a great revenue. [Lat., Magnum vectigal est parsimonia.] Votes: 0

Endless money forms the sinews of war. [Lat., Nervi belli pecunia infinita.] Votes: 0

Enjoy the blessing of strength while you have it and do not bewail it when it is gone, unless, forsooth, you believe that youth must lament the loss of infancy, or early manhood the passing of youth. Life's race-course is fixed; Nature has only a single path and that path is run but once, and to each stage of existence has been allotted its own appropriate quality; so that the weakness of childhood, the impetuosity of youth, the seriousness of middle life, the maturity of old age.. each bears some of Nature's fruit, which must be garnered in its own season. Votes: 0

Enmity is anger watching the opportunity for revenge. Votes: 0

Even the ablest pilots are willing to receive advice from passengers in tempestuous weather. Votes: 0

Every animal loves itself. Votes: 0

Every evil in the bud is easily crushed: as it grows older, it becomes stronger. Votes: 0

Every generous action loves the public view; yet no theatre for virtue is equal to a consciousness of it. Votes: 0

Every man should bear his own grievances rather than detract from the comforts of another. Votes: 0

Every man's friend is no man's friend. Votes: 0

Every one is least known to himself, and it is very difficult for a man to know himself. Votes: 0

Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary. Votes: 0

Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind. Votes: 0

Everyone cleaves to the doctrine he has happened upon, as to a rock against which he has been thrown by tempest. Votes: 0

Everyone has his besetting sin. Votes: 0

Everything is alive... Everything is interconnected. Votes: 0

Exile is terrible to those who have, as it were, a circumscribed habitation; but not to those who look upon the whole globe but as one city. Votes: 0

Extreme justice is extreme injustice. Votes: 0

Falsehoods border on truths. Votes: 0

Favours out of place I regard as positive injuries. Votes: 0

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty. Votes: 0

Fewer possess virtue, than those who wish us to believe that they possess it. Votes: 0

Fire and water are not of more universal use than friendship. Votes: 0

For a courageous man cannot die dishonorably, a man who has attained the consulship cannot die before his time, a philosopher cannot die wretchedly. Votes: 0

For as the law is set over the magistrate, even so are the magistrates set over the people. And therefore, it may be truly said, "that the magistrate is a speaking law, and the law is a silent magistrate. Votes: 0

For every man's nature is concealed with many folds of disguise, and covered as it were with various veils. His brows, his eyes, and very often his countenance, are deceitful, and his speech is most commonly a lie. Votes: 0

For hardly any man dances when sober, unless he is insane. Nor does he dance while alone, nor at a respectable and moderate party. Dancing is the final phase of a wild party with fancy decorations and a multitude of delights. Votes: 0

For he, indeed, who looks into the face of a friend beholds, as it were, a copy of himself. Votes: 0

For if that last day does not occasion an entire extinction, but a change of abode only, what can be more desirable? And if it, on the other hand, destroys and absolutely puts an end to us, what can be preferable to having a deep sleep fall on us in the midst of the fatigues of life and, being thus overtaken, to sleep to eternity? Votes: 0

For it is commonly said: accomplished labours are pleasant. Votes: 0

For just as some women are said to be handsome though without adornment, so this subtle manner of speech, though lacking in artificial graces, delights us. Votes: 0

For my own part, I had rather be old only a short time than be old before I really am so. Votes: 0

For of all gainful professions, nothing is better, nothing more pleasing, nothing more delightful, nothing better becomes a well-bred man than #"Ž agriculture Votes: 0

For one day spent well, and agreeably to your precepts, is preferable to an eternity of error. Votes: 0

For surely to be wise is the most desirable thing in all the world. Votes: 0

For there is assuredly nothing dearer to a man than wisdom, and though age takes away all else, it undoubtedly brings us that. Votes: 0

For to me every sort of peace with the citizens seemed to be of more service than civil war. Votes: 0

For what is there more hideous than avarice, more brutal than lust, more contemptible than cowardice, more base than stupidity and folly? Votes: 0

For what people have always sought is equality before the law. For rights that were not open to all alike would be no rights. Votes: 0

For while we are enclosed in these confinements of the body, we perform as a kind of duty the heavy task of necessity; for the soul from heaven has been cast down from its dwelling on high and sunk, as it were, into the earth, a place just the opposite to godlike nature and eternity. But I believe that the immortal gods have sown souls in human bodies so there might exist beings to guard the world and after contemplating the order of heaven, might imitate it by their moderation and steadfastness in life. Votes: 0

Fortune is not only blind herself, but blinds the people she has embraced. Votes: 0

Fortune, not wisdom, rules lives. Votes: 0

Freedom is participation in power. Votes: 0

Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered. Votes: 0

Friends are proved by adversity. Votes: 0

Friendship embraces innumerable ends; turn where you will it is ever at your side; no barrier shuts it out; it is never untimely and never in the way. Votes: 0

Friendship is given us by nature, not to favor vice, but to aid virtue. Votes: 0

Friendship is infinitely better than kindness. Votes: 0

Friendship is not to be sought for its wages, but because its revenue consists entirely in the love which it implies. Votes: 0

Friendship is nothing else than an accord in all things, human and divine, conjoined with mutual goodwill and affection. Votes: 0

Friendship is nothing else than entire fellow feeling as to all things human and divine with mutual good-will and affection; and I doubt whether anything better than this, wisdom alone excepted, has been given to man. Votes: 0

Friendship is the only point in human affairs concerning the benefit of which all, with one voice, agree. Votes: 0

Friendship is the only thing in the world concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed. Votes: 0

Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its griefs and anxieties. [Lat., Secundas res splendidiores facit amicitia, et adversas partiens communicansque leviores.] Votes: 0

Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant, and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it. Votes: 0

Friendship was given by nature to be an assistant to virtue, not a companion in vice. Votes: 0

From all sides there is equally a way to the lower world. Votes: 0

Frugality includes all the other virtues. Votes: 0

Generosity should never exceed ability. Votes: 0

Genius is fostered by industry. Votes: 0

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow. Votes: 0

God's law is 'right reason.' When perfectly understood it is called 'wisdom.' When applied by government in regulating human relations it is called 'justice. Votes: 0

Great is the power, great is the authority of a senate that is unanimous in its opinions. Votes: 0

Grief is not in the nature of things, but in opinion. Votes: 0

Guilt is present in the very hesitation, even though the deed be not committed. Votes: 0

Habit is, as it were, a second nature. [Lat., Consuetudo quasi altera natura effici.] Votes: 0

Hatred is a settled anger. Votes: 0

Hatred is settled anger. Votes: 0

He cannot be strict in judging, who does not wish others to be strict judges of himself. Votes: 0

He has no other recommendation, save an assumed and crafty solemnity of demeanour. Votes: 0

He he he... Crazy? Cicero? He he he he! That's... madness... Votes: 0

He is rich who wishes no more than he has. Votes: 0

He is sometimes slave who should be master; and sometimes master who should be slave. Votes: 0

He removes the greatest ornament of friendship who takes away from it respect. Votes: 0

He takes the greatest ornament from friendship, who takes modesty from it. [Lat., Maximum ornamentum amicitiae tollit, qui ex ea tollit verecudiam.] Votes: 0

He who acknowledges a kindness has it still, and he who has a grateful sense of it has requited it. Votes: 0

He who hangs on the errors of the ignorant multitude, must not be counted among great men. Votes: 0

He who has a garden and a library wants for nothing. Votes: 0

He who has once deviated from the truth, usually commits perjury with as little scruple as he would tell a lie. [Lat., Qui semel a veritate deflexit, hic non majore religione ad perjurium quam ad mendacium perduci consuevit.] Votes: 0

He who suffers, remembers. Votes: 0

History illumes reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life Votes: 0

History is indeed the witness of the times, the light of truth. Votes: 0

History is the teacher of life Votes: 0

History is the witness of the times, the light of truth, the life of memory, the teacher of life, the messenger of antiquity. Votes: 0

Honor is the reward of virtue. Votes: 0

Honourable mention encourages science, and merit is fostered by praise. Votes: 0

Hours and days and months and years go by; the past returns no more, and what is to be we cannot know; but whatever the time gives us in which we live, we should therefore be content. Votes: 0

How do our philosophers act? Do they not inscribe their signatures to the very essays they write on the propriety of despising glory. Votes: 0

How great an evil do you see that may have been announced by you against the Republic? - Videtis quantum scelus contra rem publicam vobis nuntiatum sit? Votes: 0

How much in love with himself, and that too without a rival! Votes: 0

I am a Roman citizen. Votes: 0

I am much beholden to old age, which has increased my eagerness for conversation in proportion as it has lessened my appetites of hunger and thirst. Votes: 0

I am never less alone than when alone. Votes: 0

I cannot find a faithful message-bearer," he wrote to his friend, the scholar Atticus. "How few are they who are able to carry a rather weighty letter without lightening it by reading. Votes: 0

I cheerfully quit from life as if it were an inn, not a home; for Nature has given us a hostelry in which to sojourn, not to abide. Votes: 0

I depart from life as from an inn, and not as from my home. [Lat., Ex vita discedo, tanquam ex hospitio, non tanquam ex domo.] Votes: 0

I do not now so much as wish to have the Strength of Youth again that I wish'd in Youth for the Strength of an Ox or Elephant. For it is our Business only to make the best Use we can of the Powers granted us by Nature. Votes: 0

I do not understand what the man who is happy wants in order to be happier. Votes: 0

I do not wish to die: but I care not if I were dead. [Lat., Emori nolo: sed me esse mortuum nihil aestimo.] Votes: 0

I follow nature as the surest guide, and resign myself with implicit obedience to her sacred ordinances. Votes: 0

I hate all children of precocious talent. Votes: 0

I have always been of the opinion that unpopularity earned by doing what is right is not unpopularity at all, but glory. Votes: 0

I have never yet known a poet who did not think himself super-excellent. Votes: 0

I have sworn with my tongue, but my mind is unsworn. [Lat., Juravi lingua, mentem injuratem gero.] Votes: 0

I know not any season of life that is past more agreeably than virtuous old age. Votes: 0

I know that it is likely that as worship of the gods declines, faith between men and all human society will disappear, as well as that most excellent of all virtues, which is justice. Votes: 0

I like myself, but I won't say I'm as handsome as the bull that kidnapped Europa. Votes: 0

I look upon the pleasure we take in a garden as one of the most innocent delights in human life. Votes: 0

I look upon the pleasure which we take in a garden as one of the most innocent delights in human life. . . It gives us a great insight into the contrivance and wisdom of Nature, and suggests innumerable subjects for meditation. Votes: 0

I prefer silent prudence to loquacious folly. [Lat., Malo indisertam prudentiam, quam loquacem stultitiam.] Votes: 0

I prefer the wisdom of the uneducated to the folly of the loquacious. Votes: 0

I remember the very thing that I do not wish to; I cannot forget the things I wish to forget. Votes: 0

I speak of that learning which wakes us acquainted with the boundless extent of nature, and the universe, and which even while we remain in this world, discovers to us both heaven, earth, and sea. Votes: 0

I will adhere to the counsels of good men, although misfortune and death should be the consequence. Votes: 0

I will go further, and assert that nature without culture can often do more to deserve praise than culture without nature. Votes: 0

I wonder that a soothsayer doesn't laugh whenever he sees another soothsayer. Votes: 0

If a man cannot feel the power of God when he looks upon the stars, then I doubt whether he is capable of any feeling at all. Votes: 0

If a man could mount to Heaven and survey the mighty universe, his admiration of its beauties would be much diminished unless he had someone to share in his pleasure. Votes: 0

If anyone cannot feel the power of God when he looks upon the stars, then I doubt whether he is capable of feeling at all. From the enduring wonder of the heavens flows all grace and power. If anyone thinks it is mindless then he himself must be out of his mind. Votes: 0

If I am mistaken in my opinion that the human soul is immortal, I willingly err; nor would I have this pleasant error extorted from me; and if, as some minute philosophers suppose, death should deprive me of my being, I need not fear the raillery of those pretended philosophers when they are no more. Votes: 0

If only every man would make proper use of his strength and do his utmost, he need never regret his limited ability. Votes: 0

If our lives are endangered by plots or violence or armed robbers or enemies, any and every method of protecting ourselves is morally right. Votes: 0

If some lose their whole fortunes, they will drag many more down with them . . . believe me that the whole system of credit and finance which is carried on here at Rome in the Forum, is inextricably bound up with the revenues of the Asiatic province. If Those revenues are destroyed, our whole system of credit will come down with a crash. Votes: 0

If the oarsmen of a fast-moving ship suddenly cease to row, the suspension of the driving force of the oars doesn't prevent the vessel from continuing to move on its course. And with a speech it is much the same. After he has finished reciting the document, the speaker will still be able to maintain the same tone without a break, borrowing its momentum and impulse from the passage he has just read out. Votes: 0

If the soul has food for study and learning, nothing is more delightful than an old age of leisure. Votes: 0

If the truth were self-evident, eloquence would be unnecessary. Votes: 0

If we are forced, at every hour, to watch or listen to horrible events, this constant stream of ghastly impressions will deprive even the most delicate among us of all respect for humanity. Votes: 0

If wisdom be attainable, let us not only win but enjoy it. Votes: 0

If you possess a library and a garden, you have everything you need. (translation from the French) Si vous possedez une bibliotheque et un jardin, vous avez tout ce qu'il vous faut. Votes: 0

If you wish to remove avarice you must remove its mother, luxuries. [Lat., Avaritiam si tollere vultis, mater ejus est tollenda, luxuries.] Votes: 0

If you would abolish covetousness, you must abolish its mother, profusion. Votes: 0

Ignorance of impending evil is far better than a knowledge of its approach. Votes: 0

Ill gotten gains will be ill spent. Votes: 0

In a discussion of this kind our interest should be centered not on the weight of the authority but on the weight of the argument. Indeed the authority of those who set out to teach is often an impediment to those who wish to learn. They cease to use their own judgment and regard as gospel whatever is put forward by their chosen teacher. Votes: 0

In a disturbed mind, as in a body in the same state, health can not exist. Votes: 0

In all great arts, as in trees, it is the height that charms us; we care nothing for the roots or trunks, yet it could not be without the aid of these. Votes: 0

In all matters, before beginning, a diligent preparation should be made. Votes: 0

In anger nothing right nor judicious can be done. Votes: 0

In everything, without doubt, truth has the advantage over imitation. Votes: 0

In extraordinary events ignorance of their causes produces astonishment. Votes: 0

In fact the whole passion ordinarily termed love (and heaven help me if I can think of any other term to apply to it) is of such exceeding triviality that I see nothing that I think comparable with it. Votes: 0

In men of the highest character and noblest genius there is to be found an insatiable desire for honor, command, power, and glory. Votes: 0

In nothing do humans approach so nearly to the gods as doing good to others. Votes: 0

In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods, than in giving health to men. Votes: 0

In our amusements a certain limit is to be placed that we may not devote ourselves to a life of pleasure and thence fall into immorality. Votes: 0

In prosperity let us most carefully avoid pride, disdain, and arrogance. Votes: 0

In the approach to virtue there are many steps. Votes: 0

In the conduct of almost every affair slowness and procrastination are hateful Votes: 0

In the master there is a servant, in the servant a master. Votes: 0

In the very books in which philosophers bid us scorn fame, they inscribe their names. Votes: 0

In this statement, my Scipio, I build on your own admirable definition, that there can be no community, properly so called, unless it be regulated by a combination of rights. And by this definition it appears that a multitude of men may be just as tyrannical as a single despot and indeed this is the most odious of all tyrannies, since no monster can be more barbarous than the mob, which assumes the name and mask of the people. Votes: 0

In times of war, the law falls silent. Votes: 0

Inability to tell good from evil is the greatest worry of man's life. Votes: 0

Inhumanity is harmful in every age. - Inhumanitas omni aetate molesta est Votes: 0

It has seemed to be more necessary to have regard to the weight of words rather than to their number. Votes: 0

It is a common saying that many pecks of salt must be eaten before the duties of friendship can be discharged. [Lat., Vulgo dicitur multos modios salis simul edendos esse, ut amicitia munus expletum sit.] Votes: 0

It is a great proof of talents to be able to recall the mind from the senses, and to separate thought from habit. Votes: 0

It is a great thing to know your vices. Votes: 0

It is a man's own dishonesty, his crimes, his wickedness, and boldness, that takes away from him soundness of mind; these are the furies, these the flames and firebrands, of the wicked. Votes: 0

It is a strong proof of men knowing most things before birth, that when mere children they grasp innumerable facts with such speed as to show that they are not then taking them in for the first time, but are remembering and recalling them. Votes: 0

It is a true saying that 'one falsehood easily leads to another.' Votes: 0

It is as hard for the good to suspect evil, as it is for the bad to suspect good. Votes: 0

It is besides necessary that whoever is brave should be a man of great soul. Votes: 0

It is better to receive than to do injury. Votes: 0

It is certain that memory contains not only philosophy, but all the arts and all that appertain to the use of life. Votes: 0

It is difficult to persuade mankind that the love of virtue is the love of themselves. Votes: 0

It is difficult to remember all, and ungracious to omit any. Votes: 0

It is difficult to set bounds to the price unless you first set bounds to the wish. Votes: 0

It is difficult to tell how much men's minds are conciliated by a kind manner and gentle speech. Votes: 0

It is easy to distinguish between the joking that reflects good breeding and that which is coarse-the one, if aired at an apposite moment of mental relaxation, is becoming in the most serious of men, whereas the other is unworthy of any free person, if the content is indecent or the expression obscene. Votes: 0

It is fortune, not wisdom, that rules man's life. Votes: 0

It is generally said, "Past labors are pleasant," Euripides says, for you all know the Greek verse, "The recollection of past labors is pleasant." [Lat., Vulgo enim dicitur, Jucundi acti labores: nec male Euripides: concludam, si potero, Latine: Graecum enim hunc versum nostis omnes: Suavis laborum est proeteritorum memoria. Votes: 0

It is like taking the sun out of the world, to bereave human life of friendship. Votes: 0

It is necessary for a Senator to be thoroughly acquainted with the constitution; and this is a knowledge of the most extensive nature; a matter of science, of diligence, of reflection, without which no Senator can possibly be fit for his office. Votes: 0

It is not a virtue, but a deceptive copy and imitation of virtue, when we are led to the performance of duty by pleasure as its recompense. Votes: 0

It is not easy to distinguish between true and false affection, unless there occur one of those crises in which, as gold is tried by fire, so a faithful friendship may be tested by danger. Votes: 0

It is not enough to acquire wisdom, it is necessary to employ it. Votes: 0

It is not only arrogant, but it is profligate, for a man to disregard the world's opinion of himself. Votes: 0

It is not the place that maketh the person, but the person that maketh the place honorable. Votes: 0

It is of no avail to know what is about to happen; for it is a sad thing to be grieved when grief can do no good. Votes: 0

It is our duty, my young friends, to resist old age. Votes: 0

It is our own evil thoughts which madden us. Votes: 0

It is pleasant to recall past troubles. Votes: 0

It is the act of a bad man to deceive by falsehood. Votes: 0

It is the character of a brave and resolute man not to be ruffled by adversity and not to desert his post. Votes: 0

It is the soul itself which sees and hears, and not those parts which are, as it were, but windows to the soul. Votes: 0

It is the stain and disgrace of the age to envy virtue, and to be anxious to crush the very flower of dignity. Votes: 0

It is virtue itself that produces and sustains friendship, not without virtue can friendship by any possibility exist. Votes: 0

It is virtue, virtue, which both creates and preserves friendship. On it depends harmony of interest, permanence, fidelity. Votes: 0

It shows a brave and resolute spirit not to be agitated in exciting circumstances. Votes: 0

It was fear that was then making you a good citizen, which is never a lasting teacher of duty. Votes: 0

Judge not by the number, but by the weight. Votes: 0

Just what is the civil law? What neither influence can affect, nor power break, nor money corrupt: were it to be suppressed or even merely ignored or inadequately observed, no one would feel safe about anything, whether his own possessions, the inheritance he expects from his father, or the bequests he makes to his children. Votes: 0

Justice extorts no reward, no kind of price; she is sought, therefore, for her own sake. Votes: 0

Justice renders to every one his due. Votes: 0

Kindness is produced by kindness. Votes: 0

Law is the highest reason implanted in Nature, which commands what ought to be done and forbids the opposite. Votes: 0

Laws are dumb in the midst of arms. Votes: 0

Laws are inoperative in war Votes: 0

Lay down this rule of friendship: neither ask nor consent to do what is wrong. The plea, 'for friendship's sake,' is a discreditable one, and should not be admitted for a moment. We should ask from friends and do for friends only what is good. Votes: 0

Learning is a kind of natural food for the mind. Votes: 0

Learning maketh young men temperate, is the comfort of old age, standing for wealth with poverty, and serving as an ornament to riches. Votes: 0

Leisure consists in all those virtuous activities by which a man grows morally, intellectually, and spiritually. It is that which makes a life worth living. Votes: 0

Leisure with dignity. Votes: 0

Let a man practise the profession he best knows. [Lat., Quam quisque novit artem, in hac se exerceat.] Votes: 0

Let art, then, imitate nature, find what she desires, and follow as she directs. For in invention nature is never last, education never first; rather the beginnings of things arise from natural talent, and ends are reached by discipline. Votes: 0

Let each man have according to his deserts. Votes: 0

Let every man practice the art that he knows best. Votes: 0

Let every man practise the trade which he best understands. Votes: 0

Let flattery, the handmaid of the vices, be far removed . Votes: 0

Let our friends perish, provided that our enemies fall at the same time. Votes: 0

Let reason govern desire. Votes: 0

Let the force of arms give place to law and justice. Votes: 0

Let the punishment be proportionate to the offense. Votes: 0

Let the punishment match the offense. Votes: 0

Let the soldier yield to the civilian. Votes: 0

Let us assume that entertainment is the sole end of reading; even so I think you would hold that no mental employment is so broadening to the sympathies or so enlightening to the understanding. Other pursuits belong not to all times, all ages, all conditions; but this gives stimulus to our youth and diversion to our old age; this adds a charm to success, and offers a haven of consolation to failure. Through the night-watches, on all our journeyings, and in our hours of ease, it is our unfailing companion. Votes: 0

Let us drink for the replenishment of our strength, not for our sorrow Votes: 0

Let us not go over the old ground but rather prepare for what is to come. Votes: 0

Let us remember that justice must be observed even to the lowest. Votes: 0

Let war be so carried on that no other object may seem to be sought but the acquisition of peace. [Lat., Bellum autem ita suscipiatur, ut nihil aliud, nisi pax, quaesita videatur.] Votes: 0

Let your desires be ruled by reason. Votes: 0

Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law. Votes: 0

Life is nothing without friendship. Votes: 0

Like readily consorts with like. Votes: 0

Little by little old age renders the body less powerful. Votes: 0

Long life is denied us; therefore let us do something to show that we have lived. Votes: 0

Longing not so much to change things as to overturn them. Votes: 0

Loyalty is what we seek in friendship. Votes: 0

Man is his own worst enemy. Votes: 0

Man is his own worst enemy. [Lat., Nihil inimicius quam sibi ipse.] Votes: 0

Man must suffer to be wise. Votes: 0

Man was born for two things--thinking and acting. Votes: 0

Man's best support is a very dear friend. Votes: 0

Man's life is ruled by fortune, not by wisdom. Votes: 0

Many wish not so much to be virtuous, as to seem to be. Votes: 0

Memory is the receptacle and sheath of all knowledge Votes: 0

Men do not realize how great an income thrift is. Votes: 0

Men in no way approach so nearly to the gods as in doing good to men. [Lat., Homines ad deos nulla re propius accedunt, quam salutem hominibus dando.] Votes: 0

Men of different tastes have different pursuits. Votes: 0

Men ought to be most annoyed by the sufferings which come from their own faults. Votes: 0

Men resemble the gods in nothing so much as in doing good to their fellow creatures. Votes: 0

Men think they may justly do that for which they have a precedent. Votes: 0

Men, in whatever anxiety they may be, if they are men, sometimes indulge in relaxation. Votes: 0

Mental stains can not be removed by time, nor washed away by any waters. [Lat., Animi labes nec diuturnitate vanescere nec omnibus ullis elui potest.] Votes: 0

Modesty is that feeling by which honorable shame acquires a valuable and lasting authority. Votes: 0

Morals today are corrupted by our worship of riches. Votes: 0

More is lost by indecision than wrong decision. Indecision is the thief of opportunity. It will steal you blind. Votes: 0

More laws, less justice. Votes: 0

Most happy is he who is entirely self-reliant, and who centers all his requirements in himself alone. Votes: 0

My precept to all who build, is, that the owner should be an ornament to the house, and not the house to the owner. Votes: 0

Nature abhors annihilation. [Lat., Ab interitu naturam abhorrere.] Votes: 0

Nature has circumscribed the field of life within small dimensions, but has left the field of glory unmeasured. Votes: 0

Nature has inclined us to love men. Votes: 0

Nature has lent us life at interest, like money, and has fixed no day for its payment. Votes: 0

Nature herself has imprinted on the minds of all the idea of God Votes: 0

Nature herself makes the wise man rich. Votes: 0

Nature loves nothing solitary, and always reaches out to something, as a support, which ever in the sincerest friend is most delightful. Votes: 0

Nature ordains that a man should wish the good of every man, whoever he may be, for this very reason that he is a man. Votes: 0

Need to sharpen my blade. Make it shiny, gleamy, and oh, so... deadly. Votes: 0

Never can custom conquer nature, for she is ever unconquered. Votes: 0

Never was a government that was not composed of liars, malefactors and thieves. Votes: 0

Next to God we are nothing. To God we are Everything. Votes: 0

Nihil est incertius vulgo, nihil obscurius voluntate hominum, nihil fallacius ratione tota comitiorum. (Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than public opinion, nothing more deceptive than the whole political system.) Votes: 0

No deceit is so veiled as that which lies concealed behind the semblance of courtesy. Votes: 0

No liberal man would impute a charge of unsteadiness to another for having changed his opinion. Votes: 0

No man in his senses will dance. Votes: 0

No man should so act as to make a gain out of the ignorance of another. Votes: 0

No one can speak well, unless he thoroughly understands his subject. Votes: 0

No one could ever meet death for his country without the hope of immortality. Votes: 0

No one dances sober, unless he is insane. Votes: 0

No one dies too soon who has finished the course of perfect virtue. Votes: 0

No one has leave to sin. Votes: 0

No one has lived a short life who has performed its duties with unblemished character. Votes: 0

No one has the right to be sorry for himself for a misfortune that strikes everyone. Votes: 0

No one is so old that he does not think he could live another year. Votes: 0

No one sees what is before his feet: they scan the tracks of heaven. Votes: 0

No power is strong enough to be lasting if it labors under the weight of fear. Votes: 0

No sensible man ever imputes inconsistency to another for changing his minds. Votes: 0

No tempest or conflagration, however great, is harder to quell than mob carried away by the novelty of power. Votes: 0

No wise man has called a change of opinion in constancy. Votes: 0

Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself; you will never err if you listen to your own suggestions. Votes: 0

Non nobis solum nati sumus. (Not for ourselves alone are we born.) Votes: 0

Nor am I ashamed, as some are, to confess my ignorance of those matters with which I am unacquainted. Votes: 0

Nor do I regret that I have lived, since I have so lived that I think I was not born in vain, and I quit life as if it were an inn, not a home. Votes: 0

Not in opinion but in nature is law founded. Votes: 0

Not only is there an art in knowing a thing, but also a certain art in teaching it. Votes: 0

Not to be avaricious is money; not to be fond of buying is a revenue; but to be content with our own is the greatest and most certain wealth of all. Votes: 0

Not to have knowledge of what happened before you were born is to be condemned to live as a child. Votes: 0

Not to know what happened before means to remain forever a child. Votes: 0

Not to know what happened before one was born is always to be a child. Votes: 0

Not to know what happened before you were born is to be a child forever. For what is the time of a man, except it be interwoven with that memory of ancient things of a superior age? Votes: 0

Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labors of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge. Votes: 0

Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to continue always a child. Votes: 0

Nothing in oratory is more important than to win for the orator the favour of his hearer, and to have the latter so affected as to be swayed by something resembling an impulse of the spirit impetu quodam animi or emotion perturbatione, rather than by judgment or deliberation. For men decide far more problems by hate, or love, or lust, or rage, or sorrow, or joy, or hope, or fear, or illusion, or some other inward emotion aliqua permotione mentis, than by reality or authority, or any legal standard, or judicial precedent or statute. Votes: 0

Nothing is difficult in the eyes of a lover. Votes: 0

Nothing is more becoming in a great man than courtesy and forbearance Votes: 0

Nothing is more praiseworthy, nothing more suited to a great and illustrious man than placability and a merciful disposition. Votes: 0

Nothing is so difficult to believe that oratory cannot make it acceptable, nothing so rough and uncultured as not to gain brilliance and refinement from eloquence. Votes: 0

Nothing is so great an adversary to those who make it their business to please as expectation. Votes: 0

Nothing is so secure as that money will not defeat it. Votes: 0

Nothing is so swift as calumny, nothing is more easily propagated, nothing more readily credited, nothing more widely circulated. Votes: 0

Nothing is so unpredictable as a throw of the dice, and yet every man who plays often will at some time or other make a Venus-cast: now and then he indeed will make it twice and even thrice in succession. Are we going to be so feebleminded then as to aver that such a thing happened by the personal intervention of Venus rather than by pure luck? Votes: 0

Nothing is too absurd to be said by some of the philosophers. Votes: 0

Nothing so cements and holds together all the parts of a society as faith or credit, which can never be kept up unless men are under some force or necessity of honestly paying what they owe to one another. Votes: 0

Nothing troubles you for which you do not yearn. Votes: 0

Now in regard to trades and other means of livelihood, which ones are to be considered becoming to a gentleman and which ones are vulgar, we have been taught, in general, as follows. First, those means of livelihood are rejected as undesirable which incur people's ill-will, as those of tax-gatherers and usurers. Unbecoming to a gentleman, too, and vulgar are the means of livelihood of all hired workmen whom we pay for mere manual labour, not for artistic skill; for in their case the very wage they receive is a pledge of their slavery. Votes: 0

O philosophy, life's guide! O searcher-out of virtue and expeller of vices! What could we and every age of men have been without thee? Thou hast produced cities; thou hast called men scattered about into the social enjoyment of life. [Lat., O vitae philosophia dux! O virtutis indagatrix, expultrixque vitiorum! Quid non modo nos, sed omnino vita hominum sine et esse potuisset? Tu urbes peperisti; tu dissipatos homines in societatum vitae convocasti.] Votes: 0

O philosophy, you leader of life. Votes: 0

O tempora! O mores! O what times (are these)! what morals! Votes: 0

O wretched man, wretched not just because of what you are, but also because you do not know how wretched you are! Votes: 0

Of all the rewards of virtue, . . . the most splendid is fame, for it is fame alone that can offer us the memory of posterity. Votes: 0

Of evils one should choose the least. [Lat., Ex malis eligere minima oportere.] Votes: 0

Oh, how great is the power of truth! which of its own power can easily defend itself against all the ingenuity and cunning and wisdom of men, and against the treacherous plots of all the world. Votes: 0

On the subject of the nature of the gods, the first question is Do the gods exist or do the not? It is difficult you may say to deny that they exist. I would agree if we were arguing the matter in a public assembly, but in a private discussion of this kind, it is perfectly easy to do so. Votes: 0

Opinionum enim commenta delet dies; naturæ judicia confirmat. Time destroys the groundless conceits of men; it confirms decisions founded on reality. Votes: 0

Other relaxations are peculiar to certain times, places and stages of life, but the study of letters is the nourishment of our youth, and the joy of our old age. They throw an additional splendor on prosperity, and are the resource and consolation of adversity; they delight at home, and are no embarrassment abroad; in short, they are company to us at night, our fellow travelers on a journey, and attendants in our rural recesses. Votes: 0

Our country is wherever we are well off. [Lat., Patria est, ubicunque est bene.] Votes: 0

Our generosity never should exceed our abilities. Votes: 0

Our liberality should not exceed our ability. Votes: 0

Our minds are rendered buoyant by exercise. Votes: 0

Our span of life is brief, but is long enough for us to live well and honestly. Votes: 0

Our thoughts are free. Votes: 0

Pardon is granted to necessity. Votes: 0

Patria est communis omnium parens. Our country is the common parent of all. Votes: 0

Peace is freedom in tranquility. Votes: 0

Peace is so beneficial that the word itself is pleasant to hear. Votes: 0

People don't know the value of what they have until it is gone: Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.... Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude. Don't wait till freedom is gone before you enjoy, value, support, protect and make the most of it! Votes: 0

Persistence in a single view has never been regarded as a merit in political leaders. Votes: 0

Philosophy is the true mother of science. Votes: 0

Philosophy is true mother of the arts [of science]. Votes: 0

Physicians, when the cause of disease is discovered, consider that the cure is discovered. Votes: 0

Piety and holiness of life will propitiate the gods. [Lat., Deos placatos pietas efficiet et sanctitas.] Votes: 0

Plato divinely calls pleasure the bait of evil, inasmuch as men are caught by it as fish by a hook. Votes: 0

Pleasant is the recollection of dangers past. Votes: 0

Please go on, make your threats. I don't like to submit to mere implication. Votes: 0

Pleasure blinds (so to speak) the eyes of the mind, and has no fellowship with virtue. Votes: 0

Politeness and an affable address are our best introduction. Votes: 0

Politicians are not born; they are excreted. Votes: 0

Poor is the nation that has no heroes, but poorer still is the nation that having heroes, fails to remember and honor them. Votes: 0

Probabilities direct the conduct of the wise man. Votes: 0

Promises are not to be kept, if the keeping of them would prove harmful to those to whom you have made them. Votes: 0

Prosperity demands of us more prudence and moderation than adversity. Votes: 0

Prudence in action avails more than wisdom in conception. Votes: 0

Prudence must not be expected from a man who is never sober. [Lat., Non est ab homine nunquam sobrio postulanda prudentia.] Votes: 0

Quo usque tandem abutere, Catilina, patientia nostra? In heaven's name,Catiline, how long will you abuse ourpatience? Votes: 0

Read at every wait; read at all hours; read within leisure; read in times of labor; read as one goes in; read as one goest out. The task of the educated mind is simply put: read to lead. Votes: 0

Reason is the mistress and queen of all things. [Lat., Domina omnium et regina ratio.] Votes: 0

Religion is the pious worship of God. Votes: 0

Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. Votes: 0

Saving the virtues includes all other advantages Votes: 0

Secret enmities are more to be feared than open ones. Votes: 0

Sed nescio quo modo nihil tam absurde dici potest quod non dicatur ab aliquo philosphorum. (There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it.) Votes: 0

Should this my firm persuasion of the soul's immortality prove to be a mere delusion, it is at least a pleasing delusion, and I will cherish it to my last breath. Votes: 0

Silent enim leges inter arma (Laws are silent in times of war). Votes: 0

Since an intelligence common to us all makes things known to us and formulates them in our minds, honorable actions are ascribed by us to virtue, and dishonorable actions to vice; and only a madman would conclude that these judgments are matters of opinion, and not fixed by nature. Votes: 0

Slowly and imperceptibly old age comes creeping on. Votes: 0

So it may well be believed that when I found him taking a complete holiday, with a vast supply of books at command, he had the air of indulging in a literary debauch, if the term may be applied to so honorable an occupation. Votes: 0

So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge. Votes: 0

So you see, old age is really not so bad. May you come to know the condition! Votes: 0

Socrates was the first to call philosophy down from the heavens and to place it in cities, and even to introduce it into homes and compel it to inquire about life and standards and goods and evils. Votes: 0

Some men make a womanish complaint that it is a great misfortune to die before our time. I would ask what time? Is it that of Nature? But she, indeed, has lent us life, as we do a sum of money, only no certain day is fixed for payment. What reason then to complain if she demands it at pleasure, since it was on this condition that you received it. Votes: 0

Sound conviction should influence us rather than public opinion. Votes: 0

Strain every nerve to gain your point. Votes: 0

Such are a well regulated militia, composed of the freeholders, citizen and husbandman, who take up arms to preserve their property, as individuals, and their rights as freemen. Votes: 0

Summer lasts not for ever; seasons succeed each other. Votes: 0

Sweet is the recollection of difficulties overcome. Votes: 0

Tall oaks grow from little acorns.Testing. This is the text of an item. Testing. Origin. Testing. Quoted. Testing. Source. The diligent farmer plants trees, of which he himself will never see the fruit. Votes: 0

Taxes are the sinews of the state. Votes: 0

That folly of old age which is called dotage is peculiar to silly old men, not to age itself. Votes: 0

That he who hath the loan of money has not repaid it, and he who has repaid has not the loan; but he who has acknowledged a kindness has it still, and he who has a feeling of it has requited it. Votes: 0

That is probable which for the most part usually comes to pass, or which is a part of the ordinary beliefs of mankind. Votes: 0

That man is guilty of impertinence who considers not the circumstances of time, or engrosses the conversation, or makes himself the subject of his discourse, or pays no regard to the company he is in. Votes: 0

That which is not forbidden, is not on that account permitted. Votes: 0

That which is usually called dotage is not the weak point of all old men, but only of such as are distinguished by their levity. Votes: 0

That which leads us to the performance of duty by offering pleasure as its reward, is not virtue, but a deceptive copy and imitation of virtue. [Lat., Nam quae voluptate, quasi mercede aliqua, ad officium impellitur, ea non est virtus sed fallax imitatio simulatioque virtutis.] Votes: 0

That, Senators, is what a favour from gangs amounts to. They refrain from murdering someone; then they boast that they have spared him! Votes: 0

The absolute good is not a matter of opinion but of nature. Votes: 0

The aim of justice is to give everyone his due. Votes: 0

The authors who affect contempt for a name in the world put their names to the books which they invite the world to read. Votes: 0

The avarice of the old: it's absurd to increase one's luggage as one nears the journey's end. Votes: 0

The beauty of the world and the orderly arrangement of everything celestial makes us confess that there is an excellent and eternal nature, which ought to be worshiped and admired by all mankind. Votes: 0

The beginnings of all things are small. Votes: 0

The best Armour of Old Age is a well spent life preceding it; a Life employed in the Pursuit of useful Knowledge, in honourable Actions and the Practice of Virtue; in which he who labours to improve himself from his Youth, will in Age reap the happiest Fruits of them; not only because these never leave a Man, not even in the extremest Old Age; but because a Conscience bearing Witness that our Life was well-spent, together with the Remembrance of past good Actions, yields an unspeakable Comfort to the Soul Votes: 0

The budget should be balanced, the treasury refilled, public debt reduced, the arrogance of officialdom tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands curtailed, lest Rome become bankrupt. Votes: 0

The causes of events are ever more interesting than the events themselves. Votes: 0

The celestial order and the beauty of the universe compel me to admit that there is some excellent and eternal Being, who deserves the respect and homage of men Votes: 0

The chief recommendation is modesty, then dutiful conduct toward parents, then affection for kindred. Votes: 0

The comfort derived from the misery of others is slight. Votes: 0

The consciousness of good intention is the greatest solace of misfortunes. Votes: 0

The cultivation of the mind is a kind of food supplied for the soul of man. Votes: 0

The diligent farmer plants trees, of which he himself will never see the fruit. Votes: 0

The divinity who rules within us, forbids us to leave this world without his command. Votes: 0

The dutifulness of children is the foundation of all virtues. Votes: 0

The evil implanted in man by nature spreads so imperceptibly, when the habit of wrong-doing is unchecked, that he himself can set no limit to his shamelessness. Votes: 0

The existence of virtue depends entirely upon its use. Votes: 0

The eyes, like sentinels, hold the highest place in the body. [Lat., Oculi, tanquam, speculatores, altissimum locum obtinent.] Votes: 0

The false is nothing but an imitation of the true. Votes: 0

The First Bond of Society is Marriage. Votes: 0

The first bond of society is the marriage tie; the next our children; then the whole family of our house, and all things in common. Votes: 0

The first duty of man is the seeking after and the investigation of truth. Votes: 0

The following passage is one of those cited by Copernicus himself in his preface to De Revolutionibus: "The Syracusan Hicetas, as Theophrastus asserts, holds the view that the heaven, sun, moon, stars, and in short all of the things on high are stationary, and that nothing in the world is in motion except the earth, which by revolving and twisting round its axis with extreme velocity produces all the same results as would be produced if the earth were stationary and the heaven in motion. . . ." Votes: 0

The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish. Votes: 0

The forehead is the gate of the mind. Votes: 0

The foundations of justice are that on one shall suffer wrong; then, that the public good be promoted. Votes: 0

The freedom of poetic license. Votes: 0

The gardener plants trees, not one berry of which he will ever see: and shall not a public man plant laws, institutions, government, in short, under the same conditions? Votes: 0

The gods attend to great matters, they neglect small ones. Votes: 0

The good of the people is the greatest law. Votes: 0

The great theatre for virtue is conscience. Votes: 0

The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory. Votes: 0

The habit of arguing in support of atheism, whether it be done from conviction or in pretense, is a wicked and impious practice. Votes: 0

The happiest end of life is this: when the mind and the other senses being unimpaired, the same nature which put it together takes asunder her own work. Votes: 0

The higher our position the more modestly we should behave. Votes: 0

The home is the empire! There is no peace more delightful than one's own fireplace. Votes: 0

The hope of impunity is the greatest inducement to do wrong. Votes: 0

The house should derive dignity from the master, not the master from the house. Votes: 0

The human mind ever longs for occupation. Votes: 0

The illustrious and noble ought to place before them certain rules and regulations, not less for their hours of leisure and relaxation than for those of business. Votes: 0

The impulse which directs to right conduct, and deters from crime, is not only older than the ages of nations and cities, but coeval with that Divine Being who sees and rules both heaven and earth. Votes: 0

The injuries that befall us unexpectedly are less severe than those which are deliberately anticipated. Votes: 0

The Intellect engages us in the pursuit of Truth. The Passions impel us to Action. Votes: 0

The judgment of posterity is truer, because it is free from envy and malevolence. Votes: 0

The last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place. [Lat., Supremus ille dies non nostri extinctionem sed commutationem affert loci.] Votes: 0

The law is silent during war. [Lat., Silent leges inter arma.] Votes: 0

The leaders should all relate to this principle: the governed must be as happy as possible. Votes: 0

The life of the dead consists in the recollection cherished of them by the living. Votes: 0

The life of the dead is placed on the memories of the living. The love you gave in life keeps people alive beyond their time. Anyone who was given love will always live on in another's heart. Votes: 0

The man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when another blames him, the man who angles for bursts of laughter and for the repute of a wit, who can invent what he never saw, who cannot keep a secret -- that man is black at heart: mark and avoid him. Votes: 0

The man who commands efficiently must have obeyed others in the past, and the man who obeys dutifully is worthy of someday being a commander. Votes: 0

The man who is always fortunate cannot easily have a great reverence for virtue. Votes: 0

The mansion should not be graced by its master, the master should grace the mansion. Votes: 0

The master sometimes serves, and the servant sometimes is master. Votes: 0

The memory of past troubles is pleasant. [Lat., Jucunda memoria est praeteritorum malorum.] Votes: 0

The men who administer public affairs must first of all see that everyone holds onto what is his, and that private men are never deprived of their goods by public men. Votes: 0

The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious. Votes: 0

The mind becomes accustomed to things by the habitual sight of them, and neither wonders nor inquires about the reasons for things it sees all the time. Votes: 0

The more peculiarly his own a man's character is, the better it fits him. Votes: 0

The more virtuous any man is, the less easily does he suspect others to be vicious. Votes: 0

The most desirable thing in life after health and modest means is leisure with dignity. Votes: 0

The most evident difference between man and animals is this: the beast, in as much as it is largely motivated by the senses and with little perception of the past or future, lives only for the present. But man, because he is endowed with reason by which he is able to perceive relationships, sees the causes of things, understands the reciprocal nature of cause and effect, makes analogies, easily surveys the whole course of his life, and makes the necessary preparations for its conduct. Votes: 0

The multitude of fools is a protection to the wise. Votes: 0

The name of peace is sweet and the thing itself good, but between peace and slavery there is the greatest difference. Votes: 0

The name of peace is sweet, the thing itself is most salutary. Votes: 0

The nearer I approach death the more I feel like one who is in sight of land at last and is about to anchor in one's home port after a long voyage. Votes: 0

The nobler a man, the harder it is for him to suspect inferiority in others. Votes: 0

The office of liberality consisteth in giving with judgment. Votes: 0

The popular breeze - Aura popularis Votes: 0

The proof of a well-trained mind is that it rejoices in which is good and grieves at the opposite. Votes: 0

The rabble estimate few things according to their real value, most things according to their prejudices. Votes: 0

The real friend is another self. Votes: 0

The recovery of freedom is so splendid a thing that we must not shun even death when seeking to recover it. Votes: 0

The remembrance of past misery is sweet. Votes: 0

The roots of knowledge are bitter, but its fruit are sweet. Votes: 0

The science of love is the philosophy of the heart Votes: 0

The searching-out and thorough investigation of truth ought to be the primary study of man. Votes: 0

The soil of their native land is dear to all the hearts of mankind. Votes: 0

The soul in sleep gives proof of its divine nature. Votes: 0

The spirit is the true self, not that physical figure which can be pointed out by your finger. Votes: 0

The strictest law often causes the most serious wrong Votes: 0

The thirst of desire is never filled, nor fully satisfied. Votes: 0

The whole glory of virtue resides in activity. Votes: 0

The whole life of a philosopher is the meditation of his death. Votes: 0

The whole of virtue consists in its practice. Votes: 0

The wise man knows nothing if he cannot benefit from his wisdom. Wisdom is not only to be acquired, but also to be utilized. Votes: 0

The wise man never loses his temper. Votes: 0

The works of nature must all be accounted good. Votes: 0

There are two ways to resolve conflicts, through violence or through negotiation. Violence is for wild beasts, negotiation is for human beings. Votes: 0

There exists a law, not written down anywhere but inborn in our hearts; a law which comes to us not by training or custom or reading but by derivation and absorption and adoption from nature itself; a law which has come to us not from theory but from practice, not by instruction but by natural intuition. I refer to the law which lays it down that, if our lives are endangered by plots or violence or armed robbers or enemies, any and every method of protecting ourselves is morally right. Votes: 0

There has never been a poet or orator who thought another better than himself. Votes: 0

There is a certain virtue in every good man, which night and day stirs up the mind with the stimulus of glory, and reminds it that all mention of our name will not cease at the same time with our lives, but that our fame will endure to all posterity. Votes: 0

There is a difference between justice and consideration in one's relations to one's fellow men. It is the function of justice not to do wrong to one's fellow men of considerateness, not to wound their feelings. Votes: 0

There is in fact a true law namely right reason, which is in accordance with nature, applies to all men and is unchangeable and eternal. ... It will not lay down one rule at Rome and another at Athens, nor will it be one rule today and another tomorrow. But there will be one law eternal and unchangeable binding all times and upon all peoples. Votes: 0

There is in superstition a senseless fear of God. Votes: 0

There is in superstition a senseless fear of God; religion consists in the pious worship of Him. [Lat., Superstitio, in qua inest inanis timor Dei; religio, quae dei pio cultu continetur.] Votes: 0

There is no being of any race who, if he finds the proper guide, cannot attain to virtue. Votes: 0

There is no castle so strong that it cannot be overthrown by money. Votes: 0

There is no duty more indispensible than that of returning a kindness. Votes: 0

There is no duty more obligatory than the repayment of kindness. Votes: 0

There is no fortune so strong that money cannot take it. Votes: 0

There is no grief which time does not lessen and soften. Votes: 0

There is no grief which time does not lessen and soften. [Lat., Nullus dolor est quem non longinquitas temporis minuat ac molliat.] Votes: 0

There is no life without friendship Votes: 0

There is no moment without some duty. Votes: 0

There is no mortal whom pain and disease do not reach. Votes: 0

There is no one so old as to not think they may live a day longer. Votes: 0

There is no opinion so stupid that it can't be expressed by some philosopher. Votes: 0

There is no place more delightful than home. Votes: 0

There is no place more delightful than one's own fireside. Nullus est locus domestica sede jucundior. Votes: 0

There is no statement so absurd that no philosopher will make it. Votes: 0

There is no thing which God cannot accomplish. Votes: 0

There is not a moment without some duty. Votes: 0

There is not only an art, but an eloquence in it. Votes: 0

There is nothing better fitted to delight the reader than change of circumstances and varieties of fortune. Votes: 0

There is nothing god cannot do. Votes: 0

There is nothing more shocking than to see assertion and approval dashing ahead of cognition and perception. Votes: 0

There is nothing so charming as the knowledge of literature; of that branch of literature, I mean, which enables us to discover the infinity of things, the immensity of Nature, the heavens, the earth, and the seas; this is that branch which has taught us religion, moderation, magnanimity, and that has rescued the soul from obscurity; to make her see all things above and below, first and last, and between both; it is this that furnishes us wherewith to live well and happily, and guides us to pass our lives without displeasure and without offence. Votes: 0

There is nothing which God cannot do. [Lat., Nihil est quod deus efficere non possit.] Votes: 0

There is nothing which wings its flight so swiftly as calumny, nothing is uttered with more ease; nothing is listened to with more readiness, nothing disbursed more widely. Votes: 0

There is pleasure in calm remembrance of a past sorrow. Votes: 0

There is sufficient reward in the mere consciousness of a good action. Votes: 0

There is, I know not how, a certain presage, as it were, of a future existence; and this takes the deepest root, and is most discoverable, in the greatest geniuses and most exalted souls. Votes: 0

There never was a great soul that did not have some divine inspiration. Votes: 0

They are, all of them, born with raging fanaticism in their hearts, just as the Bretons and the Germans are born with blond hair. I would not be in the least bit surprised if these people would not some day become deadly to the human race. Votes: 0

They condemn what they do not understand. Votes: 0

They who dare to ask anything of a friend, by their very request seem to imply that they would do anything for the sake of that friend. Votes: 0

Things perfected by nature are better than those finished by art. Votes: 0

Things sacred should not only be touched with the hands, but unviolated in thought. [Lat., Res sacros non modo manibus attingi, sed ne cogitatione quidem violari fas fuit.] Votes: 0

This excessive licence, which the anarchists think is the only true freedom, provides the stock, as it were, from which a tyrant grows. Votes: 0

This is a proof of a well-trained mind, to rejoice in what is good and to grieve at the opposite. [Lat., Ergo hoc proprium est animi bene constituti, et laetari bonis rebus, et dolere contrariis.] Votes: 0

This is our special duty, that if anyone specially needs our help, we should give him such help to the utmost of our power. Votes: 0

This is the part of a great man, after he has maturely weighed all circumstances, to punish the guilty, to spare the many, and in every state of fortune not to depart from an upright, virtuous conduct. Votes: 0

This seems to be advanced as the surest basis for our belief in the existence of gods, that there is no race so uncivilized, no one in the world so barbarous that his mind has no inkling of a belief in gods. Votes: 0

Those who do not know history will forever remain children Votes: 0

Thou knowest how numerous this tribe is, how united and how powerful in the assemblies. I will plead in a low voice so that only the judges may hear, for instigators are not lacking to stir up the crowd against me, and against all the best citizens. To scorn, in the interest of the Republic, this multitude of Jews so often turbulent in the assemblies shows a singular strength of mind. The money is in the Treasury; they do not accuse us of theft; they seek to stir up hatreds... Votes: 0

Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat. [Lat., Esse oportet ut vivas, non vivere ut edas.] Votes: 0

Though laughter is allowable, a horse-laugh is abominable. Votes: 0

Though liberty is established by law, we must be vigilant, for liberty to enslave us is always present under that very liberty. Our Constitution speaks of the "general welfare of the people." Under that phrase all sorts of excesses can be employed by lusting tyrants to make us bondsmen. Votes: 0

Through doubt we arrive at the truth. Votes: 0

Through ignorance of what is good and what is bad, the life of men is greatly perplexed. Votes: 0

Thus in the beginning the world was so made that certain signs come before certain events. Votes: 0

Thus nature has no love for solitude, and always leans, as it were, on some support; and the sweetest support is found in the most intimate friendship. Votes: 0

Time is the herald of truth. Votes: 0

Time puts an end to speculation in opinions, and confirms the laws of nature. Votes: 0

To add a library to a house is to give that house a soul. Votes: 0

To be content with what we possess is the greatest and most secure of riches. Votes: 0

To be endowed with strength by nature, to be actuated by the powers of the mind, and to have a certain spirit almost divine infused into you. Votes: 0

To be ignorant of the past is to be forever a child. Votes: 0

To disregard what the world thinks of us is not only arrogant but utterly shameless. [Lat., Negligere quid de se quisque sentiat, non solum arrogantis est, sed etiam omnino dissoluti.] Votes: 0

To err is human, but to persevere in error is only the act of a fool. Votes: 0

To freemen, threats are impotent. Votes: 0

To give and receive advice - the former with freedom, and yet without bitterness, the latter with patience and without irritation - is peculiarly appropriate to geniune friendship. Votes: 0

To give counsel, as well as to take it, is a feature of true friendship. Votes: 0

To know the laws is not to memorize their letter but to grasp their full force and meaning. Votes: 0

To live long it is necessary to live slowly. Votes: 0

To live long, live slowly. Votes: 0

To reduce man to the duties of his own city, and to disengage him from duties to the members of other cities, is to break the universal society of the human race. Votes: 0

To remain ignorant of history is to remain forever a child Votes: 0

To some extent I liken slavery to death. Votes: 0

To study philosophy is nothing but to prepare one's self to die. Votes: 0

To stumble twice against the same stone is a Proverbsial disgrace. Votes: 0

To teach is a necessity, to please is a sweetness, to persuade is a victory. Votes: 0

To wonder at nothing when it happens, to consider nothing impossible before it has come to pass. Votes: 0

To-morrow will give some food for thought. Votes: 0

Tomorrow will give us something to think about Votes: 0

Too much liberty leads both men and nations to slavery. Votes: 0

True law is right reason in agreement with nature;...it summons to duty by its commands, and averts from wrongdoing by its prohibitions...It is a sin to try to alter this law, nor is it allowable to repeal any part of it, and it is impossible to abolish it entirely. Votes: 0

Vicious habits are so great a stain to human nature, and so odious in themselves, that every person actuated by right reason would avoid them, though he were sure they would be always concealed both from God and man, and had no future punishment entailed upon them. Votes: 0

Vicious habits are so odious and degrading that they transform the individual who practices them into an incarnate demon. Votes: 0

Victory is by nature insolent and haughty. Votes: 0

Virtue and decency are so nearly related that it is difficult to separate them from each other but in our imagination. Votes: 0

Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason. Votes: 0

Virtue is increased by the smile of approval; and the love of renown is the greatest incentive to honourable acts. Votes: 0

Virtue is its own reward. Votes: 0

Virtue is uniform, conformable to reason, and of unvarying consistency; nothing can be added to it that can make it more than virtue; nothing can be taken from it, and the name of virtue be left. Votes: 0

Vivere est cogitare. (To think is to live) Votes: 0

War leads to peace. [Lat., Cedant arma togae.] Votes: 0

War should be undertaken in such a way as to show that its only object is peace. Votes: 0

Wars, therefore, are to be undertaken for this end, that we may live in peace, without being injured; but when we obtain the victory, we must preserve those enemies who behaved without cruelty or inhumanity during the war. Votes: 0

We are born poets. we become orators. Votes: 0

We are bound by the law, so that we may be free. Votes: 0

We are not born for ourselves alone. Votes: 0

We are not born, we do not live for ourselves alone; our country, our friends, have a share in us. Votes: 0

We are obliged to respect, defend and maintain the common bonds of union and fellowship that exist among all members of the human race. Votes: 0

We can more easily avenge an injury than requite a kindness; on this account, because there is less difficulty in getting the better of the wicked than in making one's self equal with the good. Votes: 0

We cannot employ the mind to advantage when we are filled with excessive food and drink. Votes: 0

We do not destroy religion by destroying superstition. Votes: 0

We don't believe a liar even when he tells the truth. Votes: 0

We learn nothing from history except that we learn nothing from history. Votes: 0

We make allowance for necessity. Votes: 0

We must be ever on the search for some persons whom we shall love and who will love us in return. If good will and affection are taken away, every joy is taken from life. Votes: 0

We ought to regard amiability as the quality of woman, dignity that of man. Votes: 0

We rejoice in the joys of our friends as much as we do our own, and we are equally grieved at their sorrows. Wherefore the wise people will feel toward their friends as they do toward themselves, and whatever labor they would encounter with a view to their own pleasure, they will encounter also for the sake of their friends. Votes: 0

We should be as careful of our words as of our actions. Votes: 0

We should be careful that our benevolence does not exceed our means. Votes: 0

We should measure affection, not like youngsters by the ardor of its passion, but by its strength and constancy. Votes: 0

We should never so entirely avoid danger as to appear irresolute and cowardly; but, at the same time, we should avoid unnecessarily exposing ourselves to danger, than which nothing can be more foolish. Votes: 0

We study history not to be clever in another time, but to be wise always. Votes: 0

We were born to unite with our fellow men, and to join in community with the human race. Votes: 0

Were floods of tears to be unloosed In tribute to my grief, The doves of Noah ne'er had roost Nor found an olive-leaf. Votes: 0

What fervent love of herself would Virtue excite if she could be seen! Votes: 0

What gift has providence bestowed on man that is so dear to him as his children? Votes: 0

What greater or better gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth? [Lat., Quod enim munus reiplicae afferre majus, meliusve possumus, quam si docemus atque erudimus juventutem?] Votes: 0

What is becoming is honest, and whatever is honest must always be becoming. Votes: 0

What is dignity without honesty? Votes: 0

What is dishonorably got, is dishonorably squandered. Votes: 0

What is impossible by the nature of things is not confirmed by any law. Votes: 0

What is more agreeable than one's home? Votes: 0

What is so beneficial to the people as liberty, which we see not only to be greedily sought after by men, but also by beasts, and to be prepared in all things. Votes: 0

What is there that is illustrious that is not also attended by labor? Votes: 0

What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation? Votes: 0

What one has, one ought to use: and whatever he does he should do with all his might. Votes: 0

What society does to its children, so will its children do to society. Votes: 0

What the object of senile avarice may be I cannot conceive. For can there be anything more absurd than to seek more journey money, the less there remains of the journey? Votes: 0

What times! What manners! Votes: 0

What we call pleasure, and rightly so is the absence of all pain. Votes: 0

Whatever befalls in accordance with nature should be accounted good. Votes: 0

Whatever is graceful is virtuous, and whatever is virtuous is graceful. Votes: 0

Whatever you do, do with all your might. Votes: 0

When a government becomes powerful it is destructive, extravagant and violent; it is an usurer which takes bread from innocent mouths and deprives honorable men of their substance, for votes with which to perpetuate itself. Votes: 0

When I consider the wonderful activity of the mind, so great a memory of what is past, and such a capacity of penetrating into the future: when I behold such a number of arts and sciences, and such a multitude of discoveries hence arising,--I believe and am firmly persuaded that a nature which contains so many things within itself cannot be mortal. Votes: 0

When money is unreasonably coveted, it is a disease of the mind which is called avarice. Votes: 0

When they remain silent, they cry out. Votes: 0

When time and need require, we should resist with all our might, and prefer death to slavery and disgrace. Votes: 0

When war is raging the laws are dumb. Votes: 0

Where is there dignity unless there is honesty? Votes: 0

While the sick man has life, there is hope. Votes: 0

Who can love the man he fears. or by who he thinks he is himself feared? Votes: 0

Who does not know history's first law to be that an author must not dare to tell anything but the truth? And its second that he must make bold to tell the whole truth? That there must be no suggestion of partiality anywhere in his writings? Nor of malice? Votes: 0

Who does not know that the first law of historical writing is the truth. Votes: 0

Who doesn't know that the first law of history is not to dare to say anything false, and the second is not to refrain from saying anything true? Votes: 0

Wisdom is not only to be acquired, but enjoyed. Votes: 0

Wisdom is the only thing which can relieve us from the sway of the passions and the fear of danger, and which can teach us to bear the injuries of fortune itself with moderation, and which shows us all the ways which lead to tranquility and peace. Votes: 0

Wisdom often exists under a shabby coat. Votes: 0

Within the character of the citizen, lies the welfare of the nation. Votes: 0

Would that I could discover truth as easily as I can uncover falsehood. Votes: 0

Ye immortal gods! where in the world are we? Votes: 0

You may never be less alone than when you are alone. Votes: 0

You might as well take the sun out of the sky as friendship from life: for the immortal gods have given us nothing better or more delightful. Votes: 0

You must therefore love me, myself, and not my circumstances, if we are to be real friends. Votes: 0

Your enemies can kill you, but only your friends can hurt you. Votes: 0

For even if the allotted space of life be short, it is long enough in which to live honorably and well. Votes: 0

To those who are engaged in commercial dealings, justice is indispensable for the conduct of business. Votes: 0

We all are imbued with the love of praise. Votes: 0

Life without learning is death. Votes: 0

Nature has granted the use of life like a loan, without fixing any day for repayment. Votes: 0

History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time; it illumines reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life and brings us tidings of antiquities. "¨ Votes: 0

"I believe that no characteristic is so distinctively human as the sense of indebtedness we feel, not necessarily for a favor received, but even for the slightest evidence of kindness; and there is nothing so boorish, savage, inhuman as to appear to be overwhelmed by a favor, let alone unworthy of it." Votes: 0

Mathematics is an obscure field, an abstruse science, complicated and exact; yet so many have attained perfection in it that we might conclude almost anyone who seriously applied himself would achieve a measure of success. Votes: 0

Friends, though absent, are still present. Votes: 0

There is nothing proper about what you are doing, soldier, but do try to kill me properly. Votes: 0

There is no quality I would rather have, and be thought to have, than gratitude. For it is not only the greatest virtue, but is the mother of all the rest. Votes: 0

No sober person dances. Votes: 0

Even while Jerusalem was standing and the Jews were at peace with us, the practice of their sacred rites was at variance with the glory of our empire, the dignity of our name, the customs of our ancestors. Votes: 0

If you wish to persuade me, you must think my thoughts, feel my feelings, and speak my words. Votes: 0

Nulla (enim) res tantum ad dicendum proficit, quantum scriptio Nothing so much assists learning as writing down what we wish to remember. Votes: 0

The precept, "Know yourself," was not solely intended to obviate the pride of mankind; but likewise that we might understand our own worth. Votes: 0

There were poets before Homer. Votes: 0

If nature does not ratify law, then all the virtues may lose their sway. Votes: 0

I am of opinion that there is nothing so beautiful but that there is something still more beautiful, of which this is the mere image and expression,--a something which can neither be perceived by the eyes, the ears, nor any of the senses; we comprehend it merely in the imagination. Votes: 0

Everything that thou reprovest in another, thou must most carefully avoid in thyself. Votes: 0

No grief is so acute but time ameliorates it. Votes: 0

Rashness is the companion of youth, prudence of old age. Votes: 0

All the arts of refinement have mutual kinship. Votes: 0

Religion is not removed by removing superstition. Votes: 0