I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.
Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.
A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men.
When a Benefit is wrongly conferred, the author of the Benefit may often be said to injure.
Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.
It is a common saying, and in everybody’s mouth, that life is but a sojourn.
I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.
There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.
Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.
Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child.
As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser.
He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.
The good is the beautiful.
Courage is knowing what not to fear.
Democracy passes into despotism.
Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity.
Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.
Justice means minding one’s own business and not meddling with other men’s concerns.
Death is not the worst that can happen to men.
Man is a wingless animal with two feet and flat nails.
