Quotes, Quotations and Sayings

We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.

It is the nature of ambition to make men liars and cheats, to hide the truth in their breasts, and show, like jugglers, another thing in their mouths, to cut all friendships and enmities to the measure of their own interest, and to make a good countenance without the help of good will.

To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.

Few men desire liberty The majority are satisfied with a just master.

All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.

Few men desire liberty: The majority are satisfied with a just master.

To like and dislike the same things, that is indeed true friendship.

The soul is the captain and ruler of the life of morals.

As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing.

Necessity makes even the timid brave.

By union the smallest states thrive. By discord the greatest are destroyed.

Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.

The glory that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal.

The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.

Before you act consider when you have considered, tis fully time to act.

Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.

To someone seeking power, the poorest man is the most useful.

The higher your station, the less your liberty.

A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.

Ambition drove many men to become false to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.

They envy the distinction I have won let them therefore, envy my toils, my honesty, and the methods by which I gained it.

The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile virtue is a possession glorious and eternal.

For men who had easily endured hardship, danger and difficult uncertainty, leisure and riches, though in some ways desirable, proved burdensome and a source of grief.

They envy the distinction I have won; let them therefore, envy my toils, my honesty, and the methods by which I gained it.

Before you act consider; when you have considered, tis fully time to act.

Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.

The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail; mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.