It is not righteousness to outrage A brave man dead, not even though you hate him.
I have nothing but contempt for the kind of governor who is afraid, for whatever reason, to follow the course that he knows is best for the State; and as for the man who sets private friendship above the public welfare – I have no use for him either.
Laziness is the mother of all evils.
Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.
Money: There’s nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.
No treaty is ever an impediment to a cheat.
You clearly hate to yield, but you will regret it when your anger has passed. Such natures are justly the hardest for themselves to bear.
You would rouse to anger a heart of stone.
Thou shalt not ration justice.
There is no happiness where there is no wisdom; No wisdom but in submission to the gods. Big words are always punished, And proud men in old age learn to be wise.
It is the brave man’s part to live with glory, or with glory die.
Of all human ills, greatest is fortune’s wayward tyranny.
It’s terrible when the one who does the judging judges things all wrong.
The happiest life is to be without thought.
The shimmering night does not stay for mortals, not misfortunes, nor wealth, but in a moment it is gone, and to the turn of another comes joy and loss.
Do not grieve yourself too much for those you hate, nor yet forget them utterly.
Fortune raises up and fortune brings low both the man who fares well and the one who fares badly; and there is no prophet of the future for mortal men.
You win the victory when you yield to friends.
Show me the man who keeps his house in hand, He’s fit for public authority.
To be doing good deeds is man’s most glorious task.