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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.
There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.
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.
Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defense can be just.
The precepts of the law are these: to live honestly, to injure no one, and to give everyone else his due.
Whatever you do, do with all your might.
Ability without honor is useless.
In a republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not have the predominant power.
O wretched man, wretched not just because of what you are, but also because you do not know how wretched you are!
What an ugly beast the ape, and how like us.
Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide.
Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.
Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.
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.
What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?
Freedom is a man's natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.
A man's own manner and character is what most becomes him.
Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Even if you have nothing to write, write and say so.
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.
Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?
Hatred is settled anger.
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.
The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow.
Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.
Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth.
In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.
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.
Justice is the set and constant purpose which gives every man his due.
Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.
Rather leave the crime of the guilty unpunished than condemn the innocent.
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.
What is permissible is not always honorable.
Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.
Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.
In a disordered mind, as in a disordered body, soundness of health is impossible.
Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education.
In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.
A letter does not blush.
Empire and liberty.
I never admire another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.
What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.
Thrift is of great revenue.
Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage.
The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.
True nobility is exempt from fear.
It might be pardonable to refuse to defend some men, but to defend them negligently is nothing short of criminal.
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.
People do not understand what a great revenue economy is.
The spirit is the true self. The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure.
Laws should be interpreted in a liberal sense so that their intention may be preserved.
Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.
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.
The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.
Nature abhors annihilation.
Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.
Next to God we are nothing. To God we are Everything.
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