Genius is fostered by industry.
Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.
The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.
I am never less alone than when alone.
Tall oaks grow from little acorns.Testing. This is the text of an item. Testing. Origin. Testing. Quoted. Testing. Source. The diligent farmer plants trees, of which he himself will never see the fruit.
It is difficult to persuade mankind that the love of virtue is the love of themselves.
Friends, though absent, are still present.
I prefer the wisdom of the uneducated to the folly of the loquacious.
The higher our position the more modestly we should behave.
Fortune is not only blind herself, but blinds the people she has embraced.
You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.
A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue but the parent of all the other virtues.
The recovery of freedom is so splendid a thing that we must not shun even death when seeking to recover it.
Probability is the very guide of life.
Civilized people are taught by logic, barbarians, by necessity, communities by tradition; and the lesson inculcated even in wild beasts by nature itself. They learn that they have to defend their own bodies and persons lives from violence of any and every kind by all means within their power.
He has no worse enemy than himself.
Men do not realize how great an income thrift is.
Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.
Dum Spiro, spero- As long as I breathe, I hope.
He is rich who wishes no more than he has.
While all other things are uncertain, evanescent, and ephemeral, virtue alone is fixed with deep roots; it can neither be overthrown by any violence or moved from its place.
The absolute good is not a matter of opinion but of nature.
In all matters, before beginning, a diligent preparation should be made.
Not only is there an art in knowing a thing, but also a certain art in teaching it.
The man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when another blames him, the man who angles for bursts of laughter and for the repute of a wit, who can invent what he never saw, who cannot keep a secret -- that man is black at heart: mark and avoid him.
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