“So Nature ordains; no evil example corrupts us so soon and so rapidly as one that has been set at home, since it comes into the mind on high authority.”

All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.

It is but the weak and little mind that rejoices in revenge

The wise man sets bounds even to his innocent desires.

Whenever fortune wishes to joke, she lifts people from what is humble to the highest extremity of affairs.

In the present state of the world it is difficult not to write lampoons.

Many a man has met death from the rushing flood of his own eloquence; others from the strength and wondrous thews in which they have trusted.

Honesty is admired, and starves.

Today there’s more fellowship among snakes than among mankind. Wild beasts spare those with similar markings.

The tongue is the vile slave’s vilest part.

Remorse is the fruit of crime.

Honesty is praised and left in the cold.

Fate would have no divinity if we were wise: it is we who make her a goddess and place her in heaven.

This is his first punishment, that by the verdict of his own heart no guilty man is acquitted.

The greatest respect is owed to a child.

Luxury destroys more efficiently than war.

Never does Nature say one thing and Wisdom another.

There is no authority who decides what is a good idea.

I have been advised by the best medical authority, at my age, not to attempt to give up alcohol.

Nature of war to increase the executive at the expense of the legislative authority.

Nature of war to increase the executive at the expense of the legislative authority.

Fascism, most of the students agreed, is an extreme form of authoritarian rule. Citizens are required to do exactly what leaders say they must do, nothing more, nothing less.

You can never give complete authority and overall power to anyone until trust can be proven.

Remain humble. Don’t worry about who receives the credit. Never let power or authority go to your head.

It is not wisdom but authority that makes a Law.