Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
Freedom is the power to live as we choose.
The present will not long endure.
No man is wise enough by himself.
As long as I breathe, I hope.
Difficulty shows what men are.
Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence.
Turn yourself not away from three best things: Good Thought, Good Word, and Good Deed.
We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
The master leads by emptying people’s minds and filling their cores, by weakening their ambition and toughening their resolve.
Only the dead have seen the end of war.
Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.
No man pleases by silence; many I please by speaking briefly.
Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.
If someone speaks badly of you, do not defend yourself against the accusations, but reply; you obviously don’t know about my other vices otherwise you would have mentioned these as well.
I will suffer nothing as great as death without glory.
It’s not through words but actions that I want to set the luster on my life.
All is fair in love and war
Universal love is really the way of the sage-kings. It is what gives peace to the rulers and sustenance to the people.
He that is discontented in one place will seldom be happy in another.
Bastions of wealth are no deference for the man who treads the grand altar of Justice down and out of sight.
Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.
Doubt everything. Find your own light.
While there’s life there’s hope, and only the dead have none.
Love and dignity cannot share the same abode.
An evil life is a kind of death.
First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.
Knowledge which is divorced from justice may be called cunning rather than wisdom.
There are three attributes for which I am grateful to Fortune: that I was born, first, human and not animal; second, man and not woman; and third, Greek and not barbarian.
I feel people will tend toward universal love and mutual aid like fire tending upward and water downwards
Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together,but do so with all your heart.
People are distressed by their inability to do it. The problem, however, is simply that they don’t do it.
It is their character indeed that makes people who they are. But it is by reason of their actions that they are happy or the reverse.
Life is like a play: it’s not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.
The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool.
Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.
The haft of the arrow had been feathered with one of the eagles own plumes. We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction.
Education is teaching our children to desire the right things.
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?
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
It is not living that matters, but living rightly.
It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.
No speech can stain what is noble by nature.
