“When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.”

The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.

The causes of events are ever more interesting than the events themselves.

In all matters, before beginning, a diligent preparation should be made.

To make a mistake is only human; to persist in a mistake is idiotic.

The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.

We are bound by the law, so that we may be free.

Instead let Virtue herself, by her own unaided allurements, summon you to a glory that is genuine and real.

A man of faith is also full of courage.

The life of the dead is set in the memory of the living.

Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.

Dogs wait for us faithfully.

If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.

Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.

But I must at the very beginning lay down this principle – friendship can only exist between good men.

Not for ourselves alone are we born.

Is not prosperity robbed of half its value if you have no one to share your joy?

Luck is a crossroad where preparation and opportunity meet

Don’t do it tomorrow. Do it now. There might not be tomorrow.

Nobody lived my life. Nobody cried my tears. So don’t judge me.

Be a true heart, not a follower.

Anything worth dying for is certainly worth living for.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit

Say what you mean and mean what you say.

Choose To Be Inspired.