A room without books is like a body without a soul.
Six mistakes mankind keeps making century after century: 1. Believing that personal gain is made by crushing others; 2. Worrying about things that cannot be changed or corrected; 3. Insisting that a thing is impossible because we cannot accomplish it; 4. Refusing to set aside trivial preferences; 5. Neglecting development and refinement of the mind; 6. Attempting to compel others to believe and live as we do.
If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.
It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.
The traitor rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear.
Where there’s life, there’s hope.
Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.
To teach is a necessity, to please is a sweetness, to persuade is a victory.
Knowledge which is divorced from justice may be called cunning rather than wisdom.
As long as I breathe, I hope.
No one is so old as to think that he cannot live one more year.
To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.
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.
Politicians are not born; they are excreted.
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.
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?
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.
What one has, one ought to use; and whatever he does, he should do with all his might.
Kindness is stronger than fear.
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.
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.
True law is right reason in agreement with nature; it is of universal application, unchanging and everlasting; it summons to duty by its commands, and averts from wrongdoing by its prohibitions.
I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war.
Friendship is the most valuable of all human possessions.
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.
If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
We are bound by the law, so that we may be free.
A man of faith is also full of courage.
The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
Dogs wait for us faithfully.
Life is nothing without friendship.
Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.
Nothing stands out so conspicuously, or remains so firmly fixed in the memory, as something which you have blundered.
We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.
A mental stain can neither be blotted out by the passage of time nor washed away by any waters.
It is a great thing to know your vices.
The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.
Endless money forms the sinews of war.
Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.
To be content with what we possess is the greatest and most secure of riches.
He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.
Our span of life is brief, but is long enough for us to live well and honestly.
