To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.
To be content with what we possess is the greatest and most secure of riches.
The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.
For out of such an ungoverned populace one is usually chosen as a leader, someone bold and unscrupulous who curries favor with the people by giving them other men's property. To such a man the protection of public office is given, and continually renewed. He emerges as a tyrant over the very people who raised him to power.
The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.
We should be careful that our benevolence does not exceed our means.
Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.
It is not enough to acquire wisdom, it is necessary to employ it.
Morals today are corrupted by our worship of riches.
Through doubt we arrive at the truth.
Nothing is more unreliable than the populace, nothing more obscure than human intentions, nothing more deceptive than the whole electoral system.
A nation can survive its fools, even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within....for the traitor appears not to be a traitor...he rots the soul of a nation...he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist.
When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
More laws, less justice.
If you wish to persuade me, you must think my thoughts, feel my feelings, and speak my words.
There exists a law, not written down anywhere but inborn in our hearts; a law which comes to us not by training or custom or reading but by derivation and absorption and adoption from nature itself; a law which has come to us not from theory but from practice, not by instruction but by natural intuition. I refer to the law which lays it down that, if our lives are endangered by plots or violence or armed robbers or enemies, any and every method of protecting ourselves is morally right.
If we are forced, at every hour, to watch or listen to horrible events, this constant stream of ghastly impressions will deprive even the most delicate among us of all respect for humanity.
The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory.
People don't know the value of what they have until it is gone: Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.... Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude. Don't wait till freedom is gone before you enjoy, value, support, protect and make the most of it!
Read at every wait; read at all hours; read within leisure; read in times of labor; read as one goes in; read as one goest out. The task of the educated mind is simply put: read to lead.
A bureaucrat is the most despicable of men, though he is needed as vultures are needed, but one hardly admires vultures whom bureaucrats so strangely resemble. I have yet to meet a bureaucrat who was not petty, dull, almost witless, crafty or stupid, an oppressor or a thief, a holder of little authority in which he delights, as a boy delights in possessing a vicious dog. Who can trust such creatures?
Poor is the nation that has no heroes, but poorer still is the nation that having heroes, fails to remember and honor them.
Life without learning is death.
They who say that we should love our fellow-citizens but not foreigners, destroy the universal brotherhood of mankind, with which benevolence and justice would perish forever.
Diseases of the soul are more dangerous and more numerous than those of the body.
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