65 quotes found
“To think well and to consent to obey someone giving good advice are the same thing.”
“If someone were to put a proposition before men bidding them choose, after examination, the best customs in the world, each nation would certainly select its own.”
“Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.”
“Whatever comes from God is impossible for a man to turn back.”
“Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give lustre, and many more people see than weigh.”
“The only good is knowledge, and the only evil is ignorance.”
“I am bound to tell what I am told, but not in every case to believe it.”
“Great things are won by great dangers.”
“Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; While others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.”
“Men trust their ears less than their eyes.”
“But I like not these great success of yours for I know how jealous are the gods. ”
“Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.”
“All men's gains are the fruit of venturing.”
“Circumstances rule men men do not rule circumstances. ”
“Of all men's miseries the bitterest is this: to know so much and to have control over nothing.”
“Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.”
“Seventy years I regard as the limit of the life of man. In these seventy years are contained, without reckoning intercalary months, twenty-five thousand and two hundred days. Add an intercalary mon...”
“This is natural: one must read Herodotus's book-and every great book-repeatedly; with each reading it will reveal another layer, previously overlooked themes, images, and meanings. For within every...”
“It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half of the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen.”
“Death is a delightful hiding-place for weary men.”
