Quotes by Statesmen - Page 6

Whom they have injured they also hate.
Seneca
A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
They are happy men whose natures sort with their vocations.
Francis Bacon
A man's as miserable as he thinks he is.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
No man can live happily who regards himself alone who turns everything to his own advantage. Thou must live for another if thou wishest to live for thyself.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
Learn how to feel joy.
Seneca
Unhappy is the man though he rule the world who doesn't consider himself supremely blessed.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
Let wickedness escape as it may at the bar it never fails of doing justice upon itself for every guilty person is his own hangman.
Seneca
Custom reconciles us to everything.
Edmund Burke
For greed all nature is too little.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
Greed's worst point is its ingratitude.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
I would rather sleep in the southern corner of a little country churchyard than in the tombs of the Capulets.
Edmund Burke
Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants.
Edmund Burke
The foremost art of kings is the power to endure hatred.
Seneca
The king reigns but does not govern.
Jan Zamoyski
The best-loved man or maid in the town would perish with anguish could they hear all that their friends say in the course of a day.
John Hay
It is left only to God and to the angels to be lookers on.
Francis Bacon
Aim at perfection in everything though in most things it is unattainable. However they who aim at it and persevere will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable.
Lord Chesterfield
Firmness of purpose is one of the most necessary sinews of character and one of the best instruments of success. Without it genius wastes its efforts in a maze of inconsistencies.
Lord Chesterfield
There's some end at last for the man who follows a path mere rambling is interminable.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for no wind is the right wind.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
Well is it known that ambition can creep as well as soar.
Edmund Burke
All rising to great places is by a winding stair.
Francis Bacon
We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.
Goethe
I make presents to the mother but think of the daughter.
Goethe
Let us put Germany so to speak in the saddle! you will see that she can ride.
Otto von Bismarck
Genius develops in quiet places character out in the full current of human life.
Goethe
The best preservative to keep the mind in health is the faithful admonition of a friend.
Francis Bacon
He who looks for advantage out of friendship strips it all of its nobility.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
Make all good men your well-wishers and then in the years' steady sifting some of them will turn into friends.
John Hay
Distrust all those who love you extremely upon a very slight acquaintance and without any viable reason.
Lord Chesterfield
One who's our friend is fond of us one who's fond of us isn't necessarily our friend.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends never lose a chance to make them.
Francesco Guicciardini
Those that lack friends to open themselves unto are cannibals of their own hearts.
Francis Bacon
Give me the avowed the erect and manly foe Bold I can meet perhaps may turn the blow But of all plagues good Heaven thy wrath can send Save oh save me from the candid friend!
George Canning
The man who trusts other men will make fewer mistakes than he who distrusts them.
Camillo Di Cavour
Friends are the sunshine of life.
John Hay
The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship.
Francis Bacon
It is better to be deceived by one's friends than to deceive them.
Goethe
Give me the avowed the erect and manly foe Bold I can meet perhaps may turn the blow But of all plagues good Heaven thy wrath can send Save save oh save me from the candid friend!
George Canning
Fortune makes him fool whom she makes her darling.
Sir Francis Bacon
Not he who has little but he who wishes more is poor.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
What is the proper limit for wealth? It is first to have what is necessary and second to have what is enough.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
The heart is great which shows moderation in the midst of prosperity.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
He who receives a benefit with gratitude repays the first installment on his debt.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
A man can refrain from wanting what he has not and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
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
Failure changes for the better success for the worse.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
No evil is without its compensation ... it is not the loss itself but the estimate of the loss that troubles us.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
There is nothing so bitter that a patient mind cannot find some solace for it.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
Whom they have injured they also hate.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
Malice drinks one-half of its own poison.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
It is in the half fools and the half wise that the greatest danger lies.
Goethe
A great step toward independence is a good-humoured stomach.
Seneca
The folly of one man is the fortune of another.
Sir Francis Bacon
Master I marvel how the fishes live in the sea. Why as men do a-land: the great ones eat up the little ones.
Pericles
We are more often frightened than hurt and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
If we let things terrify us life will not be worth living.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
No passion so effectively robs the mind of its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
Edmund Burke
Where fear is happiness is not.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca