Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.
We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.
No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.
It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.
We must be neither cowardly nor rash but courageous.
Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life.
All Earthquakes and Disasters are warnings; there’s too much corruption in the world.
Those who cannot bravely face danger are the slaves of their attackers.
It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom.
In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge.
The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.
Remember that time slurs over everything, let all deeds fade, blurs all writings and kills all memories. Exempt are only those which dig into the hearts of men by love.
First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.
Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.
Happiness is an expression of the soul in considered actions.
The coward calls the brave man rash, the rash man calls him a coward.
Equality consists in the same treatment of similar persons.
He who has conferred a benefit on anyone from motives of love or honor will feel pain, if he sees that the benefit is received without gratitude.
To give away money is an easy matter and in any man’s power. But to decide to whom to give it and how large and when, and for what purpose and how, is neither in every man’s power nor an easy matter.