Never less idle than when wholly idle, nor less alone than when wholly alone.

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

Non nobis solum nati sumus.(Not for ourselves alone are we born.)

The aim of forensic oratory is to teach, to delight, to move.

Crimes are not to be measured by the issue of events, but by the bad intentions of men

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.

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.

The life given us by nature is short, but the memory of a life well spent is eternal.

I like myself, but I won’t say I’m as handsome as the bull that kidnapped Europe.

The safety of the people shall be the highest law.

The mind of each man is the man himself

There is a story that Simonides was dining at the house of a wealthy nobleman named Scopas at Crannon in Thessaly, and chanted a lyric poem which he had composed in honor of his host,...

Amicitiae nostrae memoriam spero sempiternam fore

Nam eloquentiam quae admirationem non habet nullam iudico

Oh, the times! Oh, the manners!

The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.

He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason

Before beginning, prepare carefully

Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.

The administration of government, like guardianship ought to be directed to the good of those who confer, not of those who receive the trust

What greater or better gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth?

Superstition is a senseless fear of God

Time obliterates the fictions of opinion and confirms the decisions of 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.

Morals today are corrupted by our worship of riches

I am testis tempurum, lux veritatis, vita memorial, magistra vitae, nunita vetustatis. The Philosopher

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men and members

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...

Let the punishment match the offense.

There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it.

I criticize by creation, not by finding fault

What is morally wrong can never be advantageous, even when it enables you to make some gain that you believe to be to your advantage. The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of...

If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.

We are all motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is, the more he is inspired by glory

The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend

Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.

As I give thought to the matter, I find four causes for the apparent misery of old age; first it withdraws us from active accomplishments; second, it renders the body less powerful; third, it deprives...

Leisure with dignity.

If a man aspires to the highest place, it is no dishonor to him to halt at the second, or even at the third.

I would rather err with Plato than think rightly with these (Pythagoreans)

Endless money forms the sinews of war.

There are no snares more dangerous than those which lurk under the guise of duty or the name of relationship.

n the face of a true friend a man sees as it were a second self……

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff

We should not be so taken up in the search for truth; as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue

The cultivation of the mind is a kind of food supplied for the soul of man

You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.

True glory strikes root, and even extends itself; all false pretensions fall as do flowers, nor can any feigned thing be lasting