I may indeed very well happen to contradict myself; but truth, as Demades said, I do not contradict.

In general I ask for books that make use of learning, not those that build it up.

Were I to live my life over again, I should live it just as I have done. I neither complain of the past, nor do I fear the future.

It is easier to sacrifice great than little things.

Fear sometimes adds wings to the heels, and sometimes nails them to the ground, and fetters them from moving.

If you want it to be so, history can be a waste of time; it can also be, if you want it to be so, a study bearing fruit beyond price.

Amongst so many borrowed things, am glad if I can steal one, disguising and altering it for some new service.