“The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow.”
Knowledge“Live as brave men and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.”
Men“The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow.”
Knowledge“The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.”
Age“Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive.”
Great“Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.”
Beauty“I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.”
Knowledge“Advice in old age is foolish for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.”
Age“In a republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not have the predominant power.”
Power“Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.”
Knowledge“No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.”
Great“An unjust peace is better than a just war.”
Peace“Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?”
Nature“This is the truth: as from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again.”
Truth“What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.”
Freedom“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.”
Life“Peace is liberty in tranquillity.”
Peace“Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.”
Great“People do not understand what a great revenue economy is.”
Great“If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.”
Good“So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.”
Trust“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.”
Men