| Quotes |
Topic |
| Misfortune | The consciousness of good intention is the greatest solace of misfortunes. |
| Modesty | He takes the greatest ornament from friendship, who takes modesty from it. |
| Modesty | Modesty is that feeling by which honorable shame acquires a valuable and lasting authority. |
| Nature | Nature abhors annihilation. |
| Nature | Things perfected by nature are better than those finished by art. |
| Occupations | Let a man practise the profession he best knows. |
| Occupations | It is now possible for a flight attendant to get a pilot pregnant. |
| Opinion | But in every matter the consensus of opinion among all nations is to be regarded as the law of nature. |
| Patriotism | Our country is the common parent of all. |
| Patriotism | Our country is wherever we are well off. |
| Peace | War leads to peace. |
| Peace | For to me every sort of peace with the citizens seemed to be of more service than civil war. |
| Philosophy | O philosophy, life's guide! O searcher-out of virtue and expeller of vices! What could we and every age of men have been without thee? Thou hast produced cities, thou hast called men scattered about into the social enjoyment of life. |
| Pleasure | In our amusements a certain limit is to be placed that we may not devote ourselves to a life of pleasure and thence fall into immorality. |
| Pleasure | In everything satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures. |
| Pleasure | Pleasure blinds the eyes of the mind, and has no fellowship with virtue. |
| Pleasure | Plato divinely calls pleasure the bait of evil, inasmuch as men are caught by it as fish by a hook. |
| Poets | I have never yet known a poet who did not think himself super-excellent. |
| Politics | I am of the opinion which you have always held, that "viva voce" voting at elections is the best method. |
| Politics | There are no true friends in politics. |
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