I like death. I'm a big fan of it.
Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.
Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.
Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a...
In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.
This is the truth: as from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth even...
We should not be so taken up in the search for truth as to neglect the...
Nothing is more noble nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and...
So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust...
The long time to come when I shall not exist has more effect on me than this...
In time of war the laws are silent.
Laws are silent in time of war.
It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief as though sorrow would be made...
Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.
In a republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not...
The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.
An unjust peace is better than a just war.
Peace is liberty in tranquillity.
Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those...
Virtue is a habit of the mind consistent with nature and moderation and...
Nature abhors annihilation.
Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth.
Of all nature's gifts to the human race what is sweeter to a man than his...
It is the nature of every person to error but only the fool perseveres in...
According to the law of nature it is only fair that no one should become...
Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money.
I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money! Old...
The sinews of war are infinite money.
We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both...
There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.
Justice consists in doing no injury to men decency in giving them no offense.
If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal I gladly err nor do I...
Live as brave men and if fortune is adverse front its blows with brave hearts.
It might be pardonable to refuse to defend some men but to defend them...
Time destroys the speculation of men but it confirms nature.
Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage.
If you have no confidence in self you are twice defeated in the race of...
The more laws the less justice.
The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective...
Knowledge which is divorced from justice may be called cunning rather than...
I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.
While there's life there's hope.
A home without books is a body without soul.
In a disordered mind as in a disordered body soundness of health is...
Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion.
People do not understand what a great revenue economy is.
No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.
Thrift is of great revenue.
Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise...