Quotes by Statesmen - Page 3

Every man has a right to his own opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts

Bernard M. Baruch

Talents are best nurtured in solitude: character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe

What mancan you show me who places any value on his time, who reckons the worth of each day, who understands that he isdying daily? For we are mistaken when we look forward to death; the major portion of death has already passed,Whatever years be behind us are in death's hands.

Seneca

Barley porridge, or a crust of barley bread, and water do not make a very cheerful diet, but nothing gives one keener pleasure than having the ability to derive pleasure even from that-- and the feeling of having arrived at something which one cannot be deprived of by any unjust stroke of fortune.

Seneca

Our universe is a sorry little affair unless it has in it something for every age to investigate.

Seneca

I possess so much, but my love for her absorbs it all. I possess so much, but without her I have nothing.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

man's sense is falsely asserted to be the standard of things; on the contrary, all the perceptions both of the senses and the mind bear reference to man and not to the Universe, and the human mind resembles these uneven mirrors which impart their own properties to different objects, from which rays are emitted and distort and disfigure them.

Francis Bacon

All That Is Needed For Evil To Succeeded, Is For Good People To Do Nothing

Edmund Burke

We should every night call ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed! What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired?

Marcus Annaeus Seneca

Architecture is frozen music.

Goethe

If a man thinks about his physical or moral state he usually discovers that he is ill.

Goethe

Manners must adorn knowledge and smooth its way through the world.

Lord Chesterfield

Our humanity were a poor thing but for the divinity that stirs within us.

Sir Francis Bacon

The road is long if one proceeds by way of precepts but short and effectual if by way of personal example.

Seneca

It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself.

Francis Bacon

The change of the word does not alter the matter

Thomas More

If a man looks sharply and attentively he shall see fortune for though she be blind yet she is not invisible.

Francis Bacon

The writers against religion whilst they oppose every system are wisely careful never to set up any of their own.

Edmund Burke

It takes all of our life to learn how to live, and – something that may surprise you more – it takes just as long to learn how to die.

Seneca

f you wish to put off all worry, assume that what you fear may happen is certainly going to happen.

Seneca

Malice drinks one-half of its own poison.

Marcus Annaeus Seneca

Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.

Edmund Burke

The world turns gray, the air grows cool, the fog blows in. Only at evening can you really value home.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If you really want to escape the things that harass you, what you’re needing is not to be in a different place but to be a different person.

Seneca

All that is necessary for evil to succeed is that good men do nothing.

Edmund Burke

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they can see nothing but sea.

Francis Bacon

Among a people generally corrupt, liberty cannot long exist.

Edmund Burke

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres or a little money and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth and for the great benefits of our being our life health and reason we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.

Marcus Annaeus Seneca

It's in the anomalies that nature reveals its secrets.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

What is the use of discussing a man's abstract right to food or medicine? The question is upon the method of procuring and administering them. In that deliberation I shall always advise to call in the aid of the farmer and the physician rather than the professor of metaphysics.

Edmund Burke

Everyone believes in his youth that the world really began with him and that all merely exists for his sake.

Goethe

I know that these mental disturbances of mine are not dangerous and give no promise of a storm; to express what I complain of in apt metaphor, I am distressed, not by a tempest, but by sea-sickness.

Seneca

Nature to be commanded must be obeyed.

Francis Bacon

Man is not born to solve the problem of the universe, but to find out what he has to do; and to restrain himself within the limits of his comprehension.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Money is like muck - not good unless it be spread.

Francis Bacon

If a man will begin with certainties he shall end in doubts but if he will content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties.

Francis Bacon

How closely flattery resembles friendship! It not only apes friendship, but outdoes it, passing it in the race; with wide-open and indulgent ears it is welcomed and sinks to the depths of the heart, and it is pleasing precisely wherein it does harm.

Seneca

Idleness is the holiday of fools.

Lord Chesterfield

It is quality rather than quantity that matters.

Seneca

In taking revenge a man is but equal to his enemy but in passing it over he is his superior.

Sir Francis Bacon

For greed all nature is too little.

Marcus Annaeus Seneca

What a ruler has to rely upon is only the human heart. Human hearts are to the ruler what roots are to a tree, what oil is to a lamp, water to fish, fields to a farmer, or money to a merchant.

Su Shi

Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it.

Edmund Burke

The surest way to prevent seditions...is to take away the matter of them.

Francis Bacon

The good things that belong to prosperity are to be wished but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

Marcus Annaeus Seneca

Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten but they may start a winning game.

Goethe

The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.

Francesco Guicciardini

The human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so fills them with fear that they seek out any and every means to be rid of it.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

What does reason demand of a man? A very easy thing-to live in accord with his own nature.

Marcus Annaeus Seneca

If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Cease endlessly striving for what you would like to do and learn to love what must be done.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

As contraries are known by contraries, so is the delights of presence best known by the torments of absence.

Alcibiades

There is time enough for everything in the course of the day if you do but one thing once but there is not time enough in the year if you will do two things at a time.

Lord Chesterfield

Each day acquire something that will fortify you against poverty, against death, indeed against other misfortunes as well; and after you have run over many thoughts, select one to be thoroughly digested that day.

Seneca

The effect of liberty on individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do before we risk congratulations.

Edmund Burke

if only these treasures were not so fragile as they are precious and beautiful.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A man can stand almost anything except a succession of ordinary days.

Goethe

[Government]is cancerous in head and limbs;only its belly is sound, and the laws it excretes are the most strightforward shit in the world.

Otto von Bismarck

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