Quotes Library

November 14, 2025

He preferred to be rather than to seem good.

Sallust (86–35 BC), Roman historian and politician, Bellum Catilinae, 54.6, of Cato the Younger

Is this true of yourself? Or is appearance what matters to you?

Best of all is to seem to others to be as good as you prefer to be and in fact are.

August 22, 2025

1 year ago

Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it.

January 11, 2025

2 years ago

A majority is always the best repartee. Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881), British prime minister and novelist, Tancred (1847),

August 31, 2025

1 year ago

We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible.

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