Reason should direct and appetite obey

No power on earth, if it labours beneath the burden of fear, can possibly be strong enough to survive.

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

It was ordained at the beginning of the world that certain signs should prefigure certain events.

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...

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

The thirst of desire is never filled, nor fully satisfied

Law is intelligence, whose natural function it is to command right conduct and forbid wrongdoing

Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.

People do not understand what a great revenue economy is.

There is wickedness in the intention of wickedness, even though it be not perpetrated in the act

What an ugly beast is the ape, and how like us.

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.

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

It is hard for the good to suspect evil as it is hard for the bad to suspect good.

To those who are engaged in commercial dealings, justice is indispensable for the conduct of business

But the effort, the effort! And as the marrow is eaten out of a man’s bones and the soul out of his belly, contending with the strange rapacity of savage life, the lower stage of...

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

Not to be covetous, is money; not to be a purchaser, is a revenue

Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.

We need more agility in inspection, collection and laboratory analysis, since we’ve had positive results on the farms that have eliminated the sick plants upon detection,

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.)

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.

In nothing do men approach so nearly to the Gods, as in giving health to men.

Let arms yield to the toga, the laurel crown to praise.

It is as hard for the good to suspect evil, as it is for the bad to suspect good

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

Would that I could discover truth as easily as I can uncover falsehood

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

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

If you aspire to the highest place, it is no disgrace to stop at the second, or even the third, place.

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

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

Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its grieves and anxieties.

Old age has been charged with being insensible to pleasure and to enjoyments arising from the gratification of the senses, a most blessed and heavenly effect, truly, if it eases us of what in youth...

May the gods avert the omen.

When superstition goes, religion remains

Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

We should be as careful of our words as of our actions, and as far from speaking ill as from doing ill

He himself said it, and this self was Pythagoras.

Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.

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

A room without books is like a body without a soul.

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

No one can give you better advice than yourself.

To live is to think.

Honor is the reward of virtue.

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...

There is nothing done by the hands of man which sometime or other time does not destroy

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