All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.

All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.

It is impossible for men engaged in low and groveling pursuits to have noble and generous sentiments. A man's thought must always follow his employment.

Nothing is so easy as to deceive one's self; for what we wish, that we readily believe; but such expectations are often inconsistent with the real state of things.

Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master

I decline to buy repentance at the cost of ten thousand drachmas.

Everything great is not always good, but all good things, are great.