Leave the rest to the gods.
Nothing’s beautiful from every point of view.
The disgrace of others often keeps tender minds from vice.
You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.
In peace, as a wise man, he should make suitable preparation for war.
Help a man against his will and you do the same as murder him.
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
One way of getting an idea of our fellow-countrymen’s miseries is to go and look at their pleasures.
None of us should be defined by the worst thing we’ve ever done.
Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at the other. It’s like feeding a dog on his own tail. It won’t fatten the dog.
Socialists think profits are a vice; I consider losses the real vice.
In lapidary inscriptions a man is not upon oath.
Every great movement must experience three stages ridicule, discussion, adoption.
The safest course is to do nothing against one’s conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.
A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority; it is not even a minority then; but it is irresistible when it clogs by its whole weight.
Who’s not sat tense before his own heart’s curtain.
In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.
The applause of a single human being is of great consequence.
To be free minded and cheerfully disposed at hours of meat and sleep and of exercise is one of the best precepts of long lasting.
Humanity has unquestionably one really effective weapon
Life is a series of surprises and would not be worth taking or keeping if it were not.
Avoid flatterers, for they are thieves in disguise.
