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.

October 29, 2025

12 months ago

If you are involved in important affairs or seeking power, you must exaggerate your successes.

April 25, 2025

2 years ago

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

February 28, 2025

2 years ago

The so-called science of poll-taking is not a science at all but a mere necromancy. People are unpredictable by nature,

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