“Moderation in all things healthful; total abstinence from all things harmful.”

We call a Man ungrateful, answered who having received a kindness, does not return the like, if occasion off ere.

Perhaps their attacks on my character meant that the hour was ripe for my career to begin in earnest.

Separated from Hellas by more than a thousand miles, they had not even a guide to point the way.

Early on, you can expect no one to believe in your destiny as much as yourself.

Most of us are always trying to increase our wealth, but you and your officers seem far more concerned with perfecting your souls.

Your game is to attack on whichever flank you can best conceal your advance, or, still better, on both flanks simultaneously.

When a horse wants to display himself, he lifts his neck up high and flexes his poll haughtily, and picks his legs up freely, and keeps his tail up.

And even as you’re working to ensure the health of your army, you must remember to take care of your own.

A man may hate cruelty and lies, but if he’s never given an opportunity to show what he’s made of, no one will remember him when he dies.

Nothing that is really good and admirable is granted by the gods to men without some effort and application.

Men, the enemy troops you can see are all that stands between us and the place we have for so long been determined to reach. We must find a way to eat them alive!

He who marries a beautiful woman in hopes of being happy with her knows not but that even she herself may be the cause of all his uneasinesses.

The man who doesn’t know his own ability is ignorant of himself.

In my experience, men who respond to good fortune with modesty and kindness are harder to find than those who face adversity with courage.

Anything forced is not beautiful.

Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.

Every evil, harm and suffering in this life comes from the love of riches.

The pain of problems is a call to find solutions rather than a reason for unhappiness and inaction, so it’s silly, pointless, and harmful to be upset at the problems and choices that come at you (though it’s understandable).

Anger is a poison. It eats us inside. We think when we hate someone we hurt them, but hatred is a curved blade, and the harm we do to others we also do to ourselves.

No harm can come to me since, in whatever happens, I see only the tender hand of Jesus.

People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them that Benjamin Franklin said it first. Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm.

No matter what someone has endured, it doesn’t give them a license to be harmful to you.

There is no safe amount of radiation. Even small amounts do harm.

When you focus on directing your energy away from harm and toward healing, you feed the soul and starve the ego.