| Quotes |
Topic |
| Acting | And Tragedy should blush as much to stoop To the low mimic follies of a farce, As a grave matron would to dance with girls. |
| Advice | What advice you give, be short. |
| Agriculture | Happy he who far from business, like the primitive are of mortals, cultivates with his own oxen the fields of his fathers, free from all anxieties of gain. |
| Ambition | I strike the stars with by sublime head. |
| Ambition | Nothing is too high for the daring of mortals: we would storm heaven itself in our folly. |
| Ambition | No steps backward. |
| Ancestry | The brave are born from the brave and good. In steers and in horses is to be found the excellence of their sire; nor do savage eagles produce a peaceful dove. |
| Anger | Anger is momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you. |
| Anger | He has hay on his horns. |
| Anger | When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, one hundred. |
| Ants | For example, the tiny ant, a creature of great industry, drags with its mouth whatever it can, and adds it to the heap which she is piling up, not unaware nor careless of the future. |
| Art | Painters and poets have equal license in regard to everything. |
| Art | Drawing is the true test of art. |
| Beginnings | What's well begun, is half done. |
| Bravery | In cold blood he leapt into burning Etna. |
| Bravery | Many brave men lived before Agamemnon; but, all unwept and unknown, are lost in the distant night, since they are without a divine poet . |
| Calumny | Like Theon . |
| Calumny | There are calumnies against which even innocence loses courage. |
| Circumstance | And I endeavour to subdue circumstances to myself, and not myself to circumstances. |
| Circumstance | What the discordant harmony of circumstances would and could effect. |
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