“Most people, in fact, will not take the trouble in finding out the truth, but are much more inclined to accept the first story they hear.”

History is Philosophy teaching by example.

The cause of all these evils was the lust for power arising from greed and ambition; and from these passions proceeded the violence of parties once engaged in contention.

The sufferings that fate inflicts on us should be borne with patience, what enemies inflict with manly courage.

When will there be justice in Athens? There will be justice in Athens when those who are not injured are as outraged as those who are.

I think the two things most opposed to good counsel are haste and passion; haste usaully goes hand in hand with folly, passion with coarseness and narrowness of mind.

He passes through life most securely who has least reason to reproach himself with complaisance toward his enemies.

The strong do what they have to do and the weak accept what they have to accept.

Of the gods we believe, and of men we know, that by a necessary law of their nature they rule wherever they can.

I dread our own mistakes more than the enemy’s intentions.

Wars spring from unseen and generally insignificant causes, the first outbreak being often but an explosion of anger.

Love of power, operating through greed and through personal ambition, was the cause of all these evils.

The secret of happiness is freedom and the secret of freedom is courage.

It is useless to attack men who could not be controlled even if conquered, while failure would leave us in an even worse position.

We Greeks believe that a man who takes no part in public affairs is not merely lazy, but good for nothing.

knowing the secret of happiness to be freedom, and the secret of freedom a brave heart, not idly to stand aside from the enemy’s onset.

For so remarkably perverse is the nature of man that he despises whoever courts him, and admires whoever will not bend before him.

I was clear about the fact that my first film should be ‘big,’ since it’s the start of your whole career graph.

The courts are so willing to assume that anything that is predominantly black must be inferior. The mere fact that a school is black does not mean that it is the product of an unconstitutional violation.

People get bent out of shape about the fact that when I was a kid, you could not drink out of certain water fountains. Well, the water was the same.

We apply law to facts. We don’t apply feelings to facts.

When you accept the fact that sometimes seasons are dry and times are hard and that God is in control of both, you will discover a sense of divine refuge, because the hope then is in God and not in yourself.

I sometimes lament the fact that I do not have the benefit of a complete and ailment free body structure.

Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts.

I was clear about the fact that my first film should be ‘big,’ since it’s the start of your whole career graph.