Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
Both Stoicism and Epicureanism –. the apathetic acceptance of defeat, and the effort to forget defeat in the arms of pleasure – were theories as to how one might yet be happy though subjugated or enslaved;.
The form of Christianity that developed in Europe and later spread to America and the rest of the world was the last great creation of the ancient pagan world.
Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
Knowledge is power but only wisdom is liberty.
Forget mistakes. Forget failure. Forget everything except what you’re going to do now and do it. Today is your lucky day.
Nothing is often a good thing to do and always a good thing to say.
A great civilization is not conquered from without, until it has destroyed itself from within. The essential causes of Rome’s decline lay in her people, her morals, her class struggle, her failing trade, her bureaucratic despotism, her stifling taxes, her consuming wars.
To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours; we are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
We teach more by what we are than by what we teach.