As for poverty, no one need be ashamed to admit it, the real shame is in not taking practical measures to escape from it.

Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you!

In private matters everyone is equal before the law. In public matters, when it is a question of putting power and responsibility into the hands of one man rather than another, what counts is not rank or money, but the ability to do the job well.

For heroes have the whole earth for their tomb; and in lands far from their own, where the column with its epitaph declares it, there is enshrined in every breast a record unwritten with no tablet to preserve it, except that of the heart.

For grief is felt not so much for the want of what we have never known, as for the loss of that to which we have been long accustomed.

It is difficult to argue with the belly, for it has no ears.

We do not need the praises of a Homer, or of anyone else whose words may delight us for the moment, but the estimation of facts will fall short of what is really true.