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.

March 9, 2025

2 years ago

Make no laws whatever concerning speech, and speech will be free; so soon as you make a declaration on paper that speech shall be free

April 23, 2025

2 years ago

If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered.

December 9, 2025

11 months ago

…the best is often unattainable, and therefore the true legislator and statesman ought to be acquainted

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