Quotations

A -  Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each person wishes, that he also believes to be true 

A - The only thing that is constant is change.

B - Character is destiny.

C - A person's character is their fate.

D - Much learning does not teach understanding.

E - Abundance of knowledge does not teach you to be wise.

A - A friend is, as it were, a second self.

B - There is no quality I would rather have, and be thought to have, than gratitude.

C - What is more agreeable than one’s own home?

D - Leisure with dignity.

E - The people’s good is the highest law.

F - We were born to unite with our fellowmen, and to join in community with the human race.

G - More law, less justice.

H - The safety of the people shall be the highest law.

A - People willingly believe what they wish.

B - Cowards die many times before their actual deaths.

C - It is better to create than to learn.

D - The die is cast.

E - Experience is the teacher of all things.. 

 A -  There are only two things: science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance. 

A - The laws of nature are but the mathematical thoughts of God.

A - Be as you wish to be seen.

B -  Beware the barrenness of a busy life.

C - The person is the richest who is content with the least.

D - It is a shame for a person to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which their body is capable.

E - The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing. 

A - If you’re afraid – don’t do it, if you’re doing it – don’t be afraid.

B - There is no good in anything until it is finished.

C - No friend is better than your own wise heart.

D - If you can’t swallow your pride, you can’t lead.

A - Well done is quickly done.

A - If it is not right do not do it; If it is not true do not say it.

B - A person's worth is no greater than their ambitions.

C -  Confine yourself to the present.

D -  You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

A - Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance.

B - Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.

C - Never impose on others what you would not choose for yourself.

D - The superior person is aware of righteousness, the inferior person is aware of advantage.

E - I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

A -  The beginning is the most important part of the work.

B -  You cannot conceive the many without the one.

C -  Friends have all things in common.

D -  No human thing is of serious importance.

E -  The life which is unexamined is not worth living.

F -  Wise people speak to have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.

G - Justice in the life and conduct of the state is possible only as it first resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens.

A - It isn't positions which lend distinction, but men who enhance positions.

A- At his best man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice, he is the worst.

B - We are what we repeatedly do; excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.

C - The high minded person does not bear grudges, for it is not the mark of a great soul to remember injuries, but to forget them.

D - Hope is a waking dream.

E - The ideal person bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.

F - It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

A - It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half of the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what may happen.

A -  Wait for the wisest of counselors: Time.

B -  It is from the greatest danger that the greatest glory will be won.

A - Seize the day, put no faith in tomorrow.

B - That person is free who is self-reliant, who masters their passions; who fears neither poverty nor death nor prison; who resists their appetite and despises worldly ambition. 

A - If I cannot bend Heaven, I will move Hell.

B -  We are not capable of everything.

C -  Love conquers all things.

D -  Death twitches my ear. “Live”, he says: “I am coming”.

E -  Each of us bears their own hell.

F -  Fortune favors the brave.

A -  I am looking for an honest man.

B - Stand a little out of my sun. [When asked by Alexander the Great if he wanted anything] 

A - To be both a speaker of words and a doer of deeds.

B - Men flourish only for a moment.

C - Victory shifts from person to person. 

A - Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.

B - There is nothing impossible to those who will try. 

C - I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.