There is wickedness in the intention of wickedness, even though it be not perpetrated in the act |
There never was a great soul that did not have some divine inspiration. |
There were poets before Homer. |
These studies are a spur to the young, a delight to the old; an ornament in prosperity, a consoling refuge in adversity; they are pleasure for us at home, and no burden abroad; they stay up with us at night, they accompany us when we travel, they are |
They are eloquent who can speak low things acutely, and of great things with dignity, and of moderate things with temper. |
They condemn what they do not understand |
This is the truth: as from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again. |
Those things are better which are perfected by nature than those which are finished by art. |
Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat |
Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature. |
Time destroys the speculations of man, but it confirms the judgment of nature |
To be ignorant of what happened before you were born is to be ever a child. For what is man's lifetime unless the memory of past events is woven with those of earlier times? |
To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. |
To disregard what the world thinks of us is not only arrogant but utterly shameless. |
To live is to think. |