wisdom Quotes

If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way.

You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

We are not angry with people we fear or respect, as long as we fear or respect them; you cannot be afraid of a person and also at the same time angry with him.

I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.

Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.

Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.

What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.

Persuasion is achieved by the speaker's personal character when the speech is so spoken as to make us think him credible. We believe good men more fully and more readily than others: this is true generally whatever the question is, and absolutely true where exact certainty is impossible and opinions are divided.

To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.