They condemn what they do not understand.
A man would have no pleasures in discovering all the beauties of the universe, even in heaven itself, unless he had a partner to whom he might communicate his joys.
The life of the dead is placed on the memories of the living. The love you gave in life keeps people alive beyond their time. Anyone who was given love will always live on in another's heart.
A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation.
Anyone may fairly seek his own advantage, but no one has a right to do so at another's expense.
What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?
Your enemies can kill you, but only your friends can hurt you.
Let the welfare of the people be the ultimate law.
If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter.
A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within.
In a republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not have the predominant power.
Those who do not know history will forever remain children
Nihil est incertius vulgo, nihil obscurius voluntate hominum, nihil fallacius ratione tota comitiorum. (Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than public opinion, nothing more deceptive than the whole political system.)
Next to God we are nothing. To God we are Everything.
The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
Man is his own worst enemy. [Lat., Nihil inimicius quam sibi ipse.]
As I give thought to the matter, I find four causes for the apparent misery of old age; first, it withdraws us from active accomplishments; second, it renders the body less powerful; third, it deprives us of almost all forms of enjoyment; fourth, it stands not far from death.
What is morally wrong can never be advantageous, even when it enables you to make some gain that you believe to be to your advantage. The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious.
We forget our pleasures, we remember our sufferings.
Let a man practise the profession he best knows. [Lat., Quam quisque novit artem, in hac se exerceat.]
Whatever you do, do with all your might.
The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.
A home without books is a body without soul.
Studies are the food of youth, the delight of old age; the ornament of prosperity, the refuge and comfort of adversity; a delight at home, and no hindrance abroad; they are companions by night, and in travel, and in the country.
As the grace of man is in the mind, so the beauty of the mind is eloquence.
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