Quotes, Quotations and Sayings

Speech is the mirror of the mind.

Life is warfare.

A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.

The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.

Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.

If you wish to be loved; Love!

Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Pain, scorned by yonder gout-ridden wretch, endured by yonder dyspeptic in the midst of his dainties, borne bravely by the girl in travail. Slight thou art, if I can bear thee, short thou art if I cannot bear thee!

The arts are the servant wisdom its master.

The arts are the servant; wisdom its master.

Life, if well lived, is long enough.

When ever the speech is corrupted so is the mind.

Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

In my own time there have been inventions of this sort, transparent windows tubes for diffusing warmth equally through all parts of a building short-hand, which has been carried to such a perfection that a writer can keep pace with the most rapid speaker. But the inventing of such things is drudgery for the lowest slaves; philosophy lies deeper. It is not her office to teach men how to use their hands. The object of her lessons is to form the soul.

Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.

A punishment to some, to some a gift, and to many a favor.

Fate rules the affairs of men, with no recognizable order.

Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man's power to live long.

The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.

It is the superfluous things for which men sweat.

Nothing is so contemptible as the sentiments of the mob.

The courts of kings are full of people, but empty of friends.

Fire is the test of gold adversity, of strong men.

Speech is the mirror of the mind. (Imago Animi Sermo Est)

Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.

Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

It is the sign of a week mind to be unable to bear wealth.

Those that are a friend to themselves are sure to be a friend to all.

So enjoy present pleasures as to not mar those to come.

Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.

Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one.

Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can't find.

To see a man fearless in dangers. untainted with lusts, happy in adversity, composed in a tumult, and laughing at all those things which are generally either coveted or feared, all men must acknowledge that this can be from nothing else but a beam of divinity that influences a mortal body.

I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open?

Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.

Happy the man who can endure the highest and the lowest fortune. He, who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity, has deprived misfortune of its power.

There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.

Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.

It should be our care not so much to live a long life as a satisfactory one.

There are no greater wretches in the world than many of those whom people in general take to be happy.

Other men's sins are before our eyes; our own are behind our backs.

When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy.

It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.

Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin.

Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.

No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may mot be subdued by discipline.

So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.