top of page
More

"Often the prudent far from making their destinies succumb to them."
Author Name
Personal Development

"We must believe what is good and true about the prophets, that they were sages, that they did understand what proceeded from their mouths, and that they bore prudence on their lips."
Author Name
Personal Development

"Don't break the rules when you haven't fully figured them out yet."
Author Name
Personal Development

"To be unfaithful to my maxim of prudence may often be very advantageous to me, although to abide by it is certainly safer."
Author Name
Personal Development

"It is better to scare off a mouse than welcome a badger"
Author Name
Personal Development

"Well-bred instinct meets reason halfway."
Author Name
Personal Development

"No man will swim ashore and take his baggage with him."
Author Name
Personal Development

"Prudence keeps life safe but does not often make it happy."
Author Name
Personal Development

"Maybe curiosity did kill your cat. But it wouldn't hurt to keep an eye on the neighbor's rottweiler just the same."
Author Name
Personal Development

"A slip of the foot is better than a slip of the tongue."
Author Name
Personal Development
More


"Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?"
Experience


"The Jews are an ignorant and barbarous people, who have long united the most sordid avarice with the most detestable superstition and the most invincible hatred for every people by whom they are tolerated and enriched."
Society


"By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property."
Wisdom


"The world embarrasses me, and I cannot dream that this watch exists and has no watchmaker."
Dream


"When we hear news we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation."
Information


"Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare The truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare."
Truth


"It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love."
Love


"It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one."
Man


"Better is the enemy of good."
Enemy


"If there had been a censorship of the press in Rome we should have had today neither Horace nor Juvenal nor the philosophical writings of Cicero."
Freedom
bottom of page