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,

September 27, 2025

10 months ago

When the lay public rallies round to an idea that is denounced by distinguished but elderly scientists

April 25, 2025

1 year ago

Government…is simply not the channel through which men’s noblest impulses are to be realized.

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