Society and the World

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.

Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all. Too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.

Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all. Too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.

Your silence gives consent.

The wisest have the most authority.

Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.

Wonder is the feeling of the philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.

The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.

All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else.

No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.

No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.

Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.

No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.

There are three classes of men.Lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.

There are three classes of men.Lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.

Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves nor their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.

Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves nor their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.

This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.

Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.

The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.