If the truth were self-evident, eloquence would be unnecessary.
Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.
The Intellect engages us in the pursuit of Truth. The Passions impel us to Action.
An unjust peace is better than a just war.
All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be brief.
I do not understand what the man who is happy wants in order to be happier.
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.
Dissimulation creeps gradually into the minds of men.
The rabble estimate few things according to their real value, most things according to their prejudices.
Learning maketh young men temperate, is the comfort of old age, standing for wealth with poverty, and serving as an ornament to riches.
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.
Crimes are not to be measured by the issue of events, but by the bad intentions of men.
It is difficult to set bounds to the price unless you first set bounds to the wish.
Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.
Our span of life is brief, but is long enough for us to live well and honestly.
Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind.
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.
In anger nothing right nor judicious can be done.
No man can be brave who thinks pain the greatest evil; nor temperate, who considers pleasure the highest good.
Men, in whatever anxiety they may be, if they are men, sometimes indulge in relaxation.
I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
To stumble twice against the same stone, is a proverbsial disgrace.
All action is of the mind and the mirror of the mind is the face, its index the eyes.
All great men are partially inspired.
We are bound by the law, so that we may be free.
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