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Time obliterates the fictions of opinion and confirms the decisions of nature.
Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.
A life of peace, purity and refinement leads to a calm and untroubled old age.
The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions.
He removes the greatest ornament of friendship who takes away from it respect.
In the conduct of almost every affair slowness and procrastination are hateful
Of evils one should choose the least. [Lat., Ex malis eligere minima oportere.]
Our span of life is brief, but is long enough for us to live well and honestly.
Guilt is present in the very hesitation, even though the deed be not committed.
The diligent farmer plants trees, of which he himself will never see the fruit.
There is no praise in being upright, where no one can, or tries to corrupt you.
The house should derive dignity from the master, not the master from the house.
Action is the language of the body and should harmonize with the spirit within.
Armed forces abroad are of little value unless there is prudent counsel at home
Never was a government that was not composed of liars, malefactors and thieves.
Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.
War should be undertaken in such a way as to show that its only object is peace.
A youth of sensuality and intemperance delivers over to old age a worn-out body.
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.
Our country is wherever we are well off. [Lat., Patria est, ubicunque est bene.]
No power is strong enough to be lasting, if it labours under the weight of fear.
Every evil in the bud is easily crushed: as it grows older, it becomes stronger.
The man who is always fortunate cannot easily have a great reverence for virtue.
I never admire another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.
The purpose of education is to free the student from the tyranny of the present.
It is like taking the sun out of the world, to bereave human life of friendship.
Men ought to be most annoyed by the sufferings which come from their own faults.
What gift has providence bestowed on man that is so dear to him as his children?
Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.
For a tear is quickly dried, especially when shed for the misfortunes of others.
Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.
Democritus maintains that there can be no great poet without a spite of madness.
I know not any season of life that is past more agreeably than virtuous old age.
The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
It is as hard for the good to suspect evil, as it is for the bad to suspect good.
It shows a weak mind not to bear prosperity as well as adversity with moderation.
The judgment of posterity is truer, because it is free from envy and malevolence.
Long life is denied us; therefore let us do something to show that we have lived.
Hatreds not vowed and concealed are to be feared more than those openly declared.
I like myself, but I won't say I'm as handsome as the bull that kidnapped Europa.
It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.
In a disordered mind, as in a disordered body, soundness of health is impossible.
To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.
The Intellect engages us in the pursuit of Truth. The Passions impel us to Action.
Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
He has no other recommendation, save an assumed and crafty solemnity of demeanour.
It shows a brave and resolute spirit not to be agitated in exciting circumstances.
The life of the dead consists in the recollection cherished of them by the living.
In a promise, what you thought, and not what you said, is always to be considered.
No poet or orator has ever existed who believed there was any better than himself.