Common sense is both more rare and more desirable in leaders than mere intelligence.

The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it.

History is only the pattern of silken slippers descending the stairs to the thunder of hobnailed boots climbing upward from below.

"I have no more than twenty acres of ground," he replied, "the whole of which I cultivate myself with the help of my children; and our labor keeps off from us the three great evils - boredom, vice, and want."

Superstition sets the whole world in flames, but philosophy douses them.

It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.

If there had been a censorship of the press in Rome we should have had today neither Horace nor Juvenal, nor the philosophical writings of Cicero.