Few are those who wish to be endowed with virtue rather than to seem so.

If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.

Tall oaks grow from little acorns.Testing. This is the text of an item. Testing. Origin. Testing. Quoted. Testing. Source. The diligent farmer plants trees, of which he himself will never see the fruit.

The precepts of the law are these: to live honestly, to injure no one, and to give everyone else his due.

History is indeed the witness of the times, the light of truth.

The searching-out and thorough investigation of truth ought to be the primary study of man.

You may never be less alone than when you are alone.