Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Who does not know that the first law of historical writing is the truth.
Inhumanity is harmful in every age. - Inhumanitas omni aetate molesta est
The more peculiarly his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.
We study history not to be clever in another time, but to be wise always.
There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it.
Let us not go over the old ground but rather prepare for what is to come.
He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.
If you would abolish covetousness, you must abolish its mother, profusion.
The causes of events are ever more interesting than the events themselves.
Rather leave the crime of the guilty unpunished than condemn the innocent.
Fortune is not only blind herself, but blinds the people she has embraced.
Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.
The consciousness of good intention is the greatest solace of misfortunes.
Prudence is the knowledge of things to be sought, and those to be shunned.
In a disturbed mind, as in a body in the same state, health can not exist.
History illumes reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life
You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.
The first duty of man is the seeking after and the investigation of truth.
Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind.
We ought to regard amiability as the quality of woman, dignity that of man.
As the grace of man is in the mind, so the beauty of the mind is eloquence.
No well-informed person has declared a change of opinion to be inconstancy.
The cultivation of the mind is a kind of food supplied for the soul of man.
Ignorance of impending evil is far better than a knowledge of its approach.
What is becoming is honest, and whatever is honest must always be becoming.
Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.
In doubtful cases the more liberal interpretation must always be preferred.
I do not understand what the man who is happy wants in order to be happier.
Patria est communis omnium parens. Our country is the common parent of all.
Please go on, make your threats. I don't like to submit to mere implication.
For many wish not so much to be, as to seem to be, endowed with real virtue.
The nobler a man, the harder it is for him to suspect inferiority in others.
It is exercise alone that supports the spirits, and keeps the mind in vigor.
Endless money forms the sinews of war. [Lat., Nervi belli pecunia infinita.]
Let the punishment be equal with the offence. [Lat., Noxiae poena par esto.]
In nothing do humans approach so nearly to the gods as doing good to others.
Anyone who has got a book collection/library and a garden wants for nothing.
It is besides necessary that whoever is brave should be a man of great soul.
To teach is a necessity, to please is a sweetness, to persuade is a victory.
There is no opinion so stupid that it can't be expressed by some philosopher.
Fewer possess virtue, than those who wish us to believe that they possess it.
In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods than in giving health to men.
I wonder that a soothsayer doesn't laugh whenever he sees another soothsayer.
No one could ever meet death for his country without the hope of immortality.
No sensible man ever imputes inconsistency to another for changing his minds.
Time puts an end to speculation in opinions, and confirms the laws of nature.
So you see, old age is really not so bad. May you come to know the condition!
Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion.
To be content with what we possess is the greatest and most secure of riches.
There has never been a poet or orator who thought another better than himself.