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

Well-Trained Personnel Always Come Through in a Pinch.

Do you not take him to be just who commits no manner of injustice?

Seize the Unexpected Opportunity.

A Number of Friends is of more Worth than a Flock of Sheep, or of Goats, or than a Herd of Oxen.

Success always calls for greater generosity—though most people, lost in the darkness of their own egos, treat it as an occasion for greater greed.

Battles are decided more by the morale of the troops than by their bodily strength.

Self-confidence should always ride side by side with a strong sense of humility.

I will choosing to die rather than to remain alive without freedom and beg, as an alternative to death, a vastly inferior life.

Obedience Should Not Be the Result of Compulsion.

He had put on the best-looking uniform that he could, thinking that, victory deserved the best-looking armour.

And in general, every ordinance made without the consent of those who are to obey it, is a violence rather than a law.

Let No One Fall Idle.

In the Face of Danger, Be Eager, Not Intimidated.

Anyone who imprisoned people on the ground of ignorance might fairly be confined himself by those who understood what he did not.

It is better said Socrates, to change an Opinion, than to persist in a wrong one.

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

If you put that effort in, you’ll get what you want.

Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment. Full effort is full victory.

I think I hate it here because there is no love here anymore. I regret the effort I desperately made here.

The reason some portraits don’t look true to life is that some people make no effort to resemble their pictures.

For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.

You don’t need to have extraordinary effort to achieve extraordinary results. You just need to do the ordinary, everyday things exceptionally well.

A society that robs an individual of the product of his effort is not strictly speaking a society, but a mob held together by institutionalized gang violence.

The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.