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.

April 7, 2025

11 months ago

What is truth? We must adopt a pragmatic definition: it is what is believed to be true.

November 4, 2025

4 months ago

If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master.

September 11, 2025

6 months ago

People who want to understand democracy should spend less time in the library with Aristotle and more time on buses and in the subway.

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