The Intellect engages us in the pursuit of Truth. The Passions impel us to Action.
The whole life of a philosopher is the meditation of his death.
Men ought to be most annoyed by the sufferings which come from their own faults.
He who has once deviated from the truth, usually commits perjury with as little scruple as he would tell a lie.
Falsehoods border on truths.
The name of peace is sweet, and the thing itself is beneficial, but there is a great difference between peace and servitude. Peace is freedom in tranquillity, servitude is the worst of all evils, to be resisted not only by war, but even by death.
He who suffers, remembers.
The great theatre for virtue is conscience.
History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time.
Crimes are not to be measured by the issue of events, but by the bad intentions of men.
I do not understand what the man who is happy wants in order to be happier.
All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be brief.
Each part of life has its own pleasures. Each has its own abundant harvest, to be garnered in season. We may grow old in body, but we need never grow old in mind and spirit. No one is as old as to think he or she cannot live one more year.
If the truth were self-evident, eloquence would be unnecessary.
An unjust peace is better than a just war.
I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
Tomorrow will give us something to think about
It is difficult to set bounds to the price unless you first set bounds to the wish.
We all are imbued with the love of praise.
Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind.
In anger nothing right nor judicious can be done.
The rabble estimate few things according to their real value, most things according to their prejudices.
To stumble twice against the same stone, is a proverbsial disgrace.
Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun.
Even while Jerusalem was standing and the Jews were at peace with us, the practice of their sacred rites was at variance with the glory of our empire, the dignity of our name, the customs of our ancestors.
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