32 quotes
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“Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.”
"Are we looking for the absolute truth or the absolute feeling? Or the answer that best suits our personal needs?"
on Truth
"Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief"
on Friendship
"The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend."
on Corruption
"It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment."
on Wisdom
"Knowledge which is divorced from justice may be called cunning rather than wisdom."
"No power on earth, if it labours beneath the burden of fear, can possibly be strong enough to survive."
on Fear
"It is fortune not wisdom that rules man's life."
on Philosophy
"We are bound by the law, so that we may be free."
on Freedom
"Nemo enim est tam senex qui se annum non putet posse vivere.(No one is so old as to think that he cannot live one more year.)"
on Hope
"A room without books is like a body without a soul."
on Literature
"Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defense can be just."
on War
"No power is strong enough to be lasting if it labors under the weight of fear."
on Power
"Few are those who wish to be endowed with virtue rather than to seem so."
"Time obliterates the fictions of opinion and confirms the decisions of nature."
on Time
"If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need."
"If you aspire to the highest place it is no disgrace to stop at the second or even the third place."
on Ambition
"A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue but the parent of all other virtues."
"Man is his own worst enemy."
on Self Awareness
"Courage is the virtue which champions the cause of right."
on Courage
"The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends."
on Relationships