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

Without the hope of immortality no one would ever face death for his country

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

A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war.

No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration

In honorable dealing you should consider what you intended, not what you said or thought.

Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.

Old nature is by nature rather talkative.

Let us not go over the old ground, let us rather prepare for what is to come

Justice shines by its own light

He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing

There is pleasure in calm remembrance of a past sorrow.

Excessive liberty leads both nations and individuals into excessive slavery.

To study philosophy is nothing but to prepare one’s self to die.

Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else’s traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own...

It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.

Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion.

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...

I prefer the wisdom of the unlearned to the folly of the loquacious

The greatest incitement to guilt is the hope of sinning with impunity

We’re serious. This isn’t a joke, … If an entire town changed its name to DISH, you can’t buy that publicity.

We wanted to develop a means to extend the way people watch our television programming. Taking that to the next level, we’re stressing portability and choice. We wanted to provide an alternative solution, an array...

The name of peace is sweet, and the thing itself is beneficial, but there is a great difference between peace and servitude. Peace is freedom in tranquillity, servitude is the worst of all evils, to...

Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defense can be just.

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.