Those things are better which are perfected by nature than those which are finished by art.
Those things are better which are perfected by nature than those which are finished by art.
There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.
Inhumanity is harmful in every age. Inhumanitas omni aetate molesta est.
Cannot people realize how large an income is thrift?
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.
Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.
Often it is not even advantageous to know what will be. Saepe ne utile quidem est scire quid futurum sit.
It might be pardonable to refuse to defend some men, but to defend them negligently is nothing short of criminal.
True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long.
The soil of their native land is dear to all the hearts of mankind.
That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.
Whatever that be which thinks, understands, wills, and acts, it is something celestial and divine.
Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.
What is becoming in behavior is honorable, and what is honorable is becoming.
Justice renders to every one his due.
Thrift is of great revenue.
In the common people there is no wisdom, no penetration, no power of judgment
Things perfected by nature are better than those finished by art.
Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defense can be just.
An unjust peace is better than a just war.
There is no place more delightful than one's own fireplace.
I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.
All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be brief.
There is nothing done by the hands of man which sometime or other time does not destroy
The spirit is the true self.
In doubtful cases the more liberal interpretation must always be preferred.
What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.
Study carefully, the character of the one you recommend, lest their misconduct bring you shame.
The life given us by nature is short, but the memory of a life well spent is eternal.
I am a Roman citizen.
The consciousness of good intention is the greatest solace of misfortunes.
He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.
Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.
It shows a brave and resolute spirit not to be agitated in exciting circumstances.
When you wish to instruct, be brief that men's minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind.
The nobler a man, the harder it is for him to suspect inferiority in others.
Let the punishment match the offense.
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.
No liberal man would impute a charge of unsteadiness to another for having changed his opinion.
Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.
Freedom is a man's natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.
Himself loving himself so much without a rival Quam se ipse amans sine rivali.
The shifts of Fortune test the reliability of friends.
It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.
An excellent protector of sheep, the wolf O praeclarum custodem ovium lupum.
No sensible man ever imputes inconsistency to another for changing his mind.
Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.
Honor is the reward of virtue.
The first law for the historian is that he shall never dare utter an untruth. The second is that he shall suppress nothing that is true. Moreover, there shall be no suspicion of partiality in his writing, or of malice.
To some extent I liken slavery to death.
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