The man who commands efficiently must have obeyed others in the past, and the man who obeys dutifully is worthy of being some day a commander.
Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes
If we are forced, at every hour, to watch or listen to horrible events, this constant stream of ghastly impressions will deprive even the most delicate among us of all respect for humanity.
Whatever befalls in accordance with nature should be accounted good.
Crimes are not to be measured by the issue of events, but by the bad intentions of men.
No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.
Extreme justice is extreme injustice.
The nobler a man, the harder it is for him to suspect inferiority in others.
I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.
I am not ashamed to confess I am ignorant of what I do not know.
My precept to all who build is, that the owner should be an ornament to the house, and not the house to the owner.
