Be modest in speech, but excel in action.
There are words and accents by which this grief can be assuaged, and the disease in a great measure removed.
How slight and insignificant is the thing which casts down or restores a mind greedy for praise.
It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.
And seek for truth in the groves of Academe.
The covetous man is ever in want.
What exile from his country is able to escape from himself?
Those unacquainted with the world take pleasure in intimacy with great men; those who are wiser fear the consequences.
Gold will be slave or master.
All singers have this fault: if asked to sing among friends they are never so inclined; if unasked, they never leave off.
With self-discipline most anything is possible. Theodore Roosevelt Rule your mind or it will rule you.
I court not the votes of the fickle mob.
With you I should love to live, with you be ready to die.
When evil times prevail, take care to preserve the serenity of your hear.
Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers.
It is a sweet and seemly thing to die for one’s country.
Wine brings to light the hidden secrets of the soul, gives being to our hopes, bids the coward flight, drives dull care away, and teaches new means for the accomplishment of our wishes.
Avoid inquisitive persons, for they are sure to be gossips, their ears are open to hear, but they will not keep what is entrusted to them.
Joyful let the soul be in the present, let it disdain to trouble about what is beyond and temper bitterness with a laugh. Nothing is blessed forever.
Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.