"The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet."
"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."
"You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor."
"It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light."
"Quality is not an act, it is a habit."
"Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others."
"We make war that we may live in peace."
"The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live."
"The energy of the mind is the essence of life."
"The whole is more than the sum of its parts."
"The duty of rhetoric is to deal with such matters as we deliberate upon without arts or systems to guide us, in the hearing of persons who cannot take in at a glance a complicated argument or follow a long chain of reasoning."
"No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world."
"I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self."
"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."
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
"He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god."
"Wit is educated insolence."
"It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims."
"The gods too are fond of a joke."
"The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance."
"Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity."
"The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold."
"Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them."
"Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own."
"If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost."
