If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.
Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.
Leisure with dignity.
For just as some women are said to be handsome though without adornment, so this subtle manner of speech, though lacking in artificial graces, delights us.
Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions.
Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.
Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act.
It might be pardonable to refuse to defend some men, but to defend them negligently is nothing short of criminal.
The sinews of war are infinite money.
Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.
Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.
Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom
The safety of the people shall be the highest law.
Next to God we are nothing. To God we are Everything.
If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure to be wrested from me while I live.
We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.
He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.
In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.
We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members.
