philosophy Quotes

The place of justice is a hallowed place.

Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.

The correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating ourselves as we hate our neighbors.

Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.

If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.

It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.

A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about.

If there is no God, everything is permitted.

The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.