Society and the World

If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.

If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.

I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.

I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.

It is not living that matters, but living rightly.

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.

He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.

Let him that would move the world first move himself.

Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.

Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.

The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

Beware the barrenness of a busy life.

Man is the measure of all things.

No intelligent man believes that anybody ever willingly errs or willingly does base and evil deeds, they are well aware that all who do base and evil things do them unwillingly.

No intelligent man believes that anybody ever willingly errs or willingly does base and evil deeds, they are well aware that all who do base and evil things do them unwillingly.

It is indeed a desirable thing to be well-descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.

The omission of good is no less reprehensible than the commission of evil.

For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human.

To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days.

When the strong box contains no more both friends and flatterers shun the door.

Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.