Quotes to inspire and reflect

If we are to keep our democracy, there must be one commandment: 'Thou shalt not ration justice.'

Wise thinkers prevail everywhere.

It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.

There is no greater evil than anarchy.

No lie ever reaches old age.

Whoever thinks his friend more important than his country, I rate him nowhere.

A soul that is kind and intends justice discovers more than any sophist.

You should not consider a man's age but his acts.

Don't you know that silence supports the accuser's charge?

Men may know many things by seeing; but no prophet can see before the event, nor what end waits for him.

All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit.

Even a poor man can receive honors.

Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away.

For those whose wit becomes the mother of villainy, those it educates to be evil in all things.

If my body is enslaved, still my mind is free.

There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.

Not even old age knows how to love death.

Kindness is ever the begetter of kindness.

Every man can see things far off but is blind to what is near.

He who throws away a friend is as bad as he who throws away his life.

For shameful deeds are taught by shameful deeds.

A state is not a state if it belongs to one man.

Much speech is one thing, well-timed speech is another.

Things gained through unjust fraud are never secure.

You win the victory when you yield to friends.

When a man has lost all happiness, he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse.

Do not grieve yourself too much for those you hate, nor yet forget them utterly.

There is no witness so terrible and no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us.

All a man's affairs become diseased when he wishes to cure evils by evils.

Gratitude to gratitude always gives birth.

Better not to exist than live basely.

Now I see that going out into the testing ground of men it is the tongue and not the deed that wins the day.

There is no sense in crying over spilt milk. Why bewail what is done and cannot be recalled?

One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.

Much wisdom often goes with fewest words.

A wise man does not chatter with one whose mind is sick.

A word does not frighten the man who, in acting, feels no fear.

Reason is God's crowning gift to man.

Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.

Without labor nothing prospers.

No enemy is worse than bad advice.

No treaty is ever an impediment to a cheat.

It is the merit of a general to impart good news, and to conceal the truth.

Time alone reveals the just man, but you might discern a bad man in a single day.

Quick decisions are unsafe decisions.

If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink.

Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

If you have done terrible things, you must endure terrible things; for thus the sacred light of injustice shines bright.