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.

September 29, 2025

10 months ago

Always deny what you don’t want to be known, and always affirm what you want to be believed.

November 23, 2025

8 months ago

You may be sure that when a man begins to call himself a realist he is preparing to do something that he is secretly ashamed of doing.

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,

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