Anyone may fairly seek his own advantage, but no one has a right to do so at another's expense.
They condemn what they do not understand.
They who say that we should love our fellow-citizens but not foreigners, destroy the universal brotherhood of mankind, with which benevolence and justice would perish forever.
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.
Non nobis solum nati sumus. (Not for ourselves alone are we born.)
Those who do not know history will forever remain children
A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation.
What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?
Let the welfare of the people be the ultimate law.
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.)
The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
Diseases of the soul are more dangerous and more numerous than those of the body.
In a republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not have the predominant power.
If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter.
Next to God we are nothing. To God we are Everything.
Your enemies can kill you, but only your friends can hurt you.
A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within.
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.
A home without books is a body without soul.
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.
We forget our pleasures, we remember our sufferings.
Whatever you do, do with all your might.
I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.
Man must suffer to be wise.
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