The Nation that makes a great distinction between its scholars and its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting done by fools.
The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
But Above all things truth beareth away the victory.
The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits.
Friendship is the mostĀ valuable of all human possessions.
Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.
To him who is in fear everything rustles.
Fortune and love favor the brave.
Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcomes. Therefore, give yourself fully to your endeavours. Decide to construct your character through excellent actions and determine to pay the price of a worthy goal. The trials you encounter will introduce you to your strengths. Remain steadfast…and one day you will build something that endures: something worthy of your potential.
A good man does not spy around for the black spots in others, but presses unswervingly on towards his mark.
Fame in a world like this is worthless.
A bad man is a good man’s job
Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood, let alone believed, by the masses.
False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
Good character is the indispensable condition and chief determinant of happiness, itself the goal of all human doing. The end of all action, individual or collective, is the greatest happiness of the greatest number.
Everything that rises sets, and everything that grows, grows old.
Those who are skilled in combat do not become angered, those who are skilled at winning do not become afraid. Thus the wise win before they fight, while the ignorant fight to win.
A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man’s brow.
Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.
It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
I had rather be first in a village than second at Rome.
Birds of a feather flock together.
If you wish to be out front, then act as if you were behind.
If you try to change it, you will ruin it. Try to hold it, and you will lose it.
For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight.
As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.
Tolerance and apathy are the last virtues of a dying society.
The weak are always anxious for justice and equality. The strong pay no heed to either.
The omission of good is no less reprehensible than the commission of evil.
If fortune favors you do not be elated; if she frowns do not despond.
The greatest misery in adverse fortune is once to have been happy.
Many much-learned men have no intelligence.
It is a denial of justice not to stretch out a helping hand to the fallen; that is the common right of humanity.
Dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards.
Freedom is secured not by the fulfilling of men’s desires, but by the removal of desire.
The goal of life is living in agreement with Nature.
First do no harm. (Primum non nocerum)
Patience puts a crown on the head.
Marriage, if one will face the truth, is an evil, but a necessary evil.
I know how men in exile feed on dreams.
Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.
Old women should not seek to be perfumed.
Comedy too can sometimes discern what is right.
