| Quotes |
Topic |
| Abundance | The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured. |
| Actions | Whatever you do, do with all your might. |
| Age | As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind. |
| Argument | When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff. |
| Brevity | Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator. |
| Courage | Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts. |
| Cunning | Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom. |
| Decency | Justice consists of doing no one injury, decency in giving no one offense. |
| Disgrace | To stumble twice against the same stone is a proverbial disgrace. |
| Faithfulness | Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind. |
| Fame | In the very books in which philosophers bid us scorn fame, they inscribe their names. |
| Fidelity | Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind. |
| Friendship | Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its grieves and anxieties. |
| Garden | If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need. |
| Glory | Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow. |
| Glory | True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long. |
| Gratitude | Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others. |
| Greatness | No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration. |
| Hair | It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less with baldness. |
| Idleness | He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing. |
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