“Above all things, to be content with what we possess is the greatest and most secure of riches.”Tagged: Contentment, Riches, Wealth
“The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.”Tagged: Enemy Within, Own Worst Enemy, Criminality
“For there is but one essential justice which cements society, and one law which establishes this justice. This law is right reason, which is the true rule of all commandments and prohibitions. Whoever neglects this law, whether written or unwritten, is necessarily unjust and wicked.”Tagged: Justice, Society, Law
“To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?”Tagged: Ignorance, Childishness, Human Life, Ancestors, History
“To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?”Tagged: Ignorance, Child, Ancestors, History
“To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?”Tagged: Ignorance, Child, Ancestors, History
“The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.”Tagged: Life Is Short, eternal
“And we recently discovered, if it was not known before, that no amount of power can withstand the hatred of the many.”Tagged: Mob Rule, tyranny, Power, Hatred
“For things are in a bad way, when that which should be obtained by merit is attempted by money.”Tagged: Merit, Money, Meritocracy
“The only excuse, therefore, for going to war is that we may live in peace unharmed; and when the victory is won, we should spare those who have not been bloodthirsty and barbarous in their warfare.”Tagged: Peace, War
“There are, on the other hand, two kinds of injustice—the one, on the part of those who inflict wrong, the other on the part of those who, when they can, do not shield from wrong those upon whom it is being inflicted.”Tagged: Injustice
“Above all, the search after truth and its eager pursuit are peculiar to man.”Tagged: Truth, Truthseeking
“Thus we come to understand that what is true, simple, and genuine appeals most strongly to a man's nature.”Tagged: True, Simple, Genuine
“First of all, Nature has endowed every species1 of living creature with the instinct of self-preservation, of avoiding what seems likely to cause injury to life or limb, and of procuring and providing everything needful for life—food, shelter, and the like.”Tagged: Nature, self-preservation, Life, Limb, food
“Now I am aware of no people, however refined and learned or however savage and ignorant, which does not think that signs are given of future events, and that certain persons can recognize those signs and foretell events before they occur.”Tagged: Prophecy, Fortune Tellers
“For the function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil; whereas, inasmuch as all things morally wrong are evil, trickery prefers the evil to the good.”Tagged: Wisdom, Good, Evil, Trickery