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.

December 17, 2025

8 months ago

Men in high places, from having less personal interest in the characters of others—being safe from them—are commonly less acute observers,

October 21, 2025

9 months ago

The revolutionary spirit is mightily convenient in this: that it frees one from all scruples as regards ideas.

January 28, 2025

2 years ago

It is no use blowing the trumpet for the charge, and then looking around to find nobody following.

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