It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness. |
It is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing. |
It is not that we have a short space of time, but that we waste much of it. Life is long enough. |
It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor. |
It is quality rather than quantity that matters. |
It is quality rather than quantity that matters. |
It is too late to spare when you reach the dregs of the cask. |
It would be some consolation for the feebleness of ourselves and our works, if all things should perish as slowly as they come into being; but as it is, increases are of sluggish growth, but the way to ruin is rapid. |
Just as an enemy is more dangerous to a retreating army, so every trouble that fortune brings attacks us all the harder if we yield and turn our backs. |
Just as we suffer from excess in all things, so we suffer from excess in literature; thus we learn our lessons, not for life, but for the lecture room. |
Kindly remember that he whom you call your slave sprang from the same stock, is smiled upon by the same skies, and on equal terms with yourself breathes, lives and dies. It is just as possible for you to see in him a free-born man as for him to see in you a slave. |
Luck is where preparation meets opportunity. |
Man is a reasoning animal. |
My master Attalus used to say: "Evil herself drinks the largest portion of her own poison." The poison which serpents carry for the destruction of others, and secrete without harm to themselves, is not like this poison; for this sort is ruinous to the possessor. |
No man can have a peaceful life who thinks too much about lengthening it. |
No man expects such exact fidelity as a traitor. |
No man is free who is a slave to the flesh.
[Lat., Nemo liber est, qui corpori servit.] |
No one is able to rule unless he is also able to be ruled. |
Not lost, but gone before. |
Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed and rightly. |
