Force overcome by force.
(Vi Victa Vis)
(Vi Victa Vis)
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The wise are instructed by reason ordinary minds by experience the stupid, by necessity and brutes by instinct.
A happy life consists in tranquillity of mind.
He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.
It is a true saying that "One falsehood leads easily to another".
Endless money forms the sinews of war.
Live as brave men and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.
There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it.
Advice is judged by results, not by intentions.
Let arms give place to the robe, and the laurel of the warriors yield to the tongue of the orator.
It is a great thing to know our vices.
I will go further, and assert that nature without culture can often do more to deserve praise than culture without nature.
Be sure that it is not you that is mortal, but only your body. For that man whom your outward form reveals is not yourself; the spirit is the true self, not that physical figure which and be pointed out by your finger.
Where is there dignity unless there is honesty
The man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when another blames him, the man who angles for bursts of laughter and for the repute of a wit, who can invent what he never saw, who cannot keep a secret - that man is black at heart: mark and avoid him.
A life of peace, purity, and refinement leads to a calm and untroubled old age.
Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.
The welfare of the people is the ultimate law.
There are some duties we owe even to those who have wronged us. There is, after all, a limit to retribution and punishment.
Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.
Force overcome by force.
There is nothing so ridiculous but some philosopher has said it.
He removes the greatest ornament of friendship, who takes away from it respect.
Nature herself makes the wise man rich.
It is a true saying that One falsehood leads easily to another.
Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?
We are obliged to respect, defend and maintain the common bonds of union and fellowship that exist among all members of the human race.
If you aspire to the highest place, it is no disgrace to stop at second, or even the third place.
Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
If you aspire to the highest place, it is no disgrace to stop at the second, or even the third, place.
What we call pleasure, and rightly so is the absence of all pain.
A friend is, as it were, a second self.
Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labors of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.
A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation.
Men decide far more problems by hate, love, lust, rage, sorrow, joy, hope, fear, illusion, or some other inward emotion, than by reality, authority, any legal standard, judicial precedent, or statute.
As the old proverb says "Like readily consorts with like."
The welfare of the people is the ultimate law.
(Salus Populi Suprema Est Lex)
(Salus Populi Suprema Est Lex)
The strictest law often causes the most serious wrong.
The more laws, the less justice.
In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body.
The first duty of a man is the seeking after and the investigation of truth.
Let the punishment match the offense.
To be content with what one has is the greatest and truest of riches.
By force of arms.
Anyone who has got a book collection and a garden wants for nothing.
If a man aspires to the highest place, it is no dishonor to him to halt at the second, or even at the third.
There is no being of any race who, if he finds the proper guide, cannot attain to virtue.
As the old proverb says Like readily consorts with like.
Friendship make prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing it.
When you have no basis of argument, abuse the plaintiff.
To each his own.
Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.
Let your desires be ruled by reason.
Our thoughts are free.
Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide.
In men of the highest character and noblest genius there is to be found an insatiable desire for honour, command, power, and glory.
No one can speak well, unless he thoroughly understands his subject.
The evil implanted in man by nature spreads so imperceptibly, when the habit of wrong-doing is unchecked, that he himself can set no limit to his shamelessness.
The people's good is the highest law.
There is no duty more obligatory than the repayment of kindness.
What a time! What a civilization!
Such praise coming from so degraded a source, was degrading to me, its recipient.
Reason should direct and appetite obey.
By doubting we come at truth.
Law stands mute in the midst of arms.
I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.
No liberal man would impute a charge of unsteadiness to another for having changed his opinion.
Let your desires be ruled by reason.
(Appetitus Rationi Pareat)
(Appetitus Rationi Pareat)
To each his own.
(Suum Cuique)
(Suum Cuique)
By force of arms.
(Vi Et Armis)
(Vi Et Armis)
Justice consists in doing no injury to men decency in giving them no offense.
We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.
We do not destroy religion by destroying superstition.
Strain every nerve to gain your point.
While there's life, there's hope.
Whatever that be which thinks, understands, wills, and acts. it is something celestial and divine.
The absolute good is not a matter of opinion but of nature.
The wise are instructed by reason; ordinary minds by experience; the stupid, by necessity; and brutes by instinct.
The shifts of Fortune test the reliability of friends.
All action is of the mind and the mirror of the mind is the face, its index the eyes.
The name of peace is sweet, and the thing itself is beneficial, but there is a great difference between peace and servitude. Peace is freedom in tranquillity, servitude is the worst of all evils, to be resisted not only by war, but even by death.
Our span of life is brief, but is long enough for us to live well and honestly.
Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.
The freedom of poetic license.
History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time; it illumines reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life and brings us tidings of antiquity.
Neither can embellishments of language be found without arrangement and expression of thoughts, nor can thoughts be made to shine without the light of language.