Who will dare to write a history of human goodness?

So the story of man runs in a dreary circle, because he is not yet master of the earth that holds him.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.

Cultivate your garden… Do not depend upon teachers to educate you … follow your own bent, pursue your curiosity bravely, express yourself, make your own harmony… In the end, education, like happiness, is individual, and must come to us from life and from ourselves. There is no way; each pilgrim must make his own path. "Happiness," said Chamfort, "is not easily won; it is hard to find it in ourselves, and impossible to find it elsewhere.

The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.

Rome remained great as long as she had enemies who forced her to unity, vision, and heroism. When she had overcome them all she flourished for a moment and then began to die.