Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Nor let us part with justice, like a cheap and common thing, for a small and trifling price.
Gout is not relieved by a fine shoe nor a hangnail by a costly ring nor migraine by a tiara.
It is indeed a desirable thing to be well-descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.
Where two discourse, if the anger of one rises, he is the wise man who lets the contest fall.
Vos vestros servate, meos mihi linquite mores You keep to your own ways, and leave mine to me
It is easy to utter what has been kept silent, but impossible to recall what has been uttered.
The present offers itself to our touch for only an instant of time and then eludes the senses.
Athenodorus says hydrophobia, or water-dread, was first discovered in the time of Asclepiades.
It is wise to be silent when occasion requires, and better than to speak, though never so well.
Vultures are the most righteous of birds: they do not attack even the smallest living creature.
Knowledge of divine things for the most part, as Heraclitus says, is lost to us by incredulity.
Wisdom is neither gold, nor silver, nor fame, nor wealth, nor health, nor strength, nor beauty.
Rather I fear on the contrary that while we banish painful thoughts we may banish memory as well.
Wickedness frames the engines of her own torment. She is a wonderful artisan of a miserable life.
Moral good is a practical stimulus; it is no sooner seen than it inspires an impulse to practice.
What All The World Knows Water is the principle, or the element, of things. All things are water.
It is a high distinction for a homely woman to be loved for her character rather than for beauty.
They fought indeed and were slain, but it was to maintain the luxury and the wealth of other men.
Cicero said loud-bawling orators were driven by their weakness to noise, as lame men to take horse.
It is the admirer of himself, and not the admirer of virtue, that thinks himself superior to others.
The giving of riches and honors to a wicked man is like giving strong wine to him that hath a fever.
For the correct analogy for the mind is not a vessel that needs filling, but wood that needs igniting.
Medicine to produce health must examine disease; and music, to create harmony must investigate discord.
It is circumstance and proper measure that give an action its character, and make it either good or bad.
The usual disease of princes, grasping covetousness, had made them suspicious and quarrelsome neighbors.
Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is adversity.
He who first called money the sinews of the state seems to have said this with special reference to war.
Memory: what wonders it performs in preserving and storing up things gone by - or rather, things that are
I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.
He who cheats with an oath acknowledges that he is afraid of his enemy, but that he thinks little of God.
The man who first brought ruin upon the Roman people was he who pampered them by largesses and amusements.
The crowns of kings do not prevent those who wear them from being tormented sometimes by violent headaches.
The most glorious exploits do not always furnish us with the clearest discoveries of virtue or vice in men.
I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and possessions.
Friendship requires a steady, constant, and unchangeable character, a person that is uniform in his intimacy.
We rich men count our felicity and happiness to lie in these superfluities, and not in those necessary things.
Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.
When malice is joined to envy, there is given forth poisonous and feculent matter, as ink from the cuttle-fish.
A good man will take care of his horses and dogs, not only while they are young, but when old and past service.
Remember what Simonides said, that he never repented that he had held his tongue, but often that he had spoken.
Lamentation is the only musician that always, like a screech-owl, alights and sits on the roof of any angry man.
The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits.
We ought not to treat living creatures like shoes or household belongings, which when worn with use we throw away.
The superstitious man wishes he did not believe in gods, as the atheist does not, but fears to disbelieve in them.
Authority and place demonstrate and try the tempers of men, by moving every passion and discovering every frailty.
After he routed Pharnaces Ponticus at the first assault, he wrote thus to his friends: "I came, I saw, I conquered.
Poverty is not dishonorable in itself, but only when it comes from idleness, intemperance, extravagance, and folly.
Dionysius the Elder, being asked whether he was at leisure, he replied, "God forbid that it should ever befall me!"
Fortune had favoured me in this war that I feared, the rather, that some tempest would follow so favourable a gale.
God alone is entirely exempt from all want of human virtues, that which needs least is the most absolute and divine.