Quotes by Statesmen - Page 4

Pleasure is a reciprocal no one feels it who does not at the same time give it. To be pleased one must please.

Lord Chesterfield

If you would wish another to keep your secret first keep it yourself.

Seneca

Failure changes for the better success for the worse.

Marcus Annaeus Seneca

When a man is once in fashion all he does is right.

Lord Chesterfield

Friends are the sunshine of life.

John Hay

Science is the most reliable guide in life.

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

Peace at home, peace in the world.

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

He who decides a case without hearing the other side though he decide justly cannot be considered just.

Seneca

All this hurrying from place to place won’t bring you any relief, for you’re traveling in the company of your own emotions, followed by your troubles all the way.

Seneca

you shall be told what pleased me to-day in the writings ofHecato; it is these words: "What progress, you ask, have I made? I have begun to be a friend to myself." That wasindeed a great benefit; such a person can never be alone. You may be sure that such a man is a friend to all mankind.

Seneca

I was eleven, then I was sixteen. Though no honors came my way, those were the lovely years.

Bernard M. Baruch

Money is a great servant but a bad master.

Francis Bacon

Vice can be learnt even without a teacher.

Seneca

Virtue is like a rich stone best plain set.

Sir Francis Bacon

In this world one is seldom reduced to make a selection between two alternatives. There are as many varieties of conduct and opinion as there are turns of feature between an aquiline nose and a flat one.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Truth has to be repeated constantly, because Error also is being preached all the time, and not just by a few, but by the multitude. In the Press and Encyclopaedias, in Schools and Universities, everywhere Error holds sway, feeling happy and comfortable in the knowledge of having Majority on its side.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

In the realm of ideas, everything depends on enthusiasm. ... In the real world, all rests on perseverance.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Example is the school of mankind and they will learn at no other.

Edmund Burke

Once you have rid yourself of the affliction there, though, every change of scene will become a pleasure. You may be banished to the ends of the earth, and yet in whatever outlandish corner of the world you may find yourself stationed, you will find that place, whatever it may be like, a hospitable home. Where you arrive does not matter so much as what sort of person you are when you arrive there.

Seneca

It's not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It's because we dare not venture that they are difficult.

Seneca

Life is the childhood of our immortality.

Goethe

schade dass die Natur nur einen Mensch aus dir schuf / denn zum wurdigen Mann war und zum Schelmen der Stoff" (loose translation: nature, alas, made only one being out of you although there was material for a good man & a rogue)

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The creative process is a cocktail of instinct, skill, culture and a highly creative feverishness. It is not like a drug; it is a particular state when everything happens very quickly, a mixture of consciousness and unconsciousness, of fear and pleasure, it's a little like making love, the physical act of love.

Francis Bacon

Solitude is precious balm to my heart in these paradistic parts.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.

Philip Dormer Stanhope

Only a mind that is deeply stirred can utter something noble and beyond the power of others.

Seneca

Classicism is health, romanticisim is sickness.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Night brings our troubles to the light rather than banishes them.

Seneca

If you treat men the way they are you never improve them. If you treat them the way you want them to be you do.

Goethe

Authority, without any condition and reservation, belongs to the nation.

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted ...but to weigh and consider.

Francis Bacon

Literature decays only as men become more and more corrupt.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Man is immortal, his salvation is hereafter, The state has no immortality, its salvation is now or never

Cardinal Richelieu

[Alexander von] Humboldt showers us with true treasures.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is often better not to see an insult than to avenge it.

Seneca

Cursed Mammon be when he with treasures To restless action spurs our fate!

Goethe

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