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- Be not too hasty either with praise or blame; speak always as though you were giving evidence before the judgement-seat of the Gods.
- Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
- An unpopular rule is never long maintained.
- Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
- Never trust a man who speaks well of everybody.
- John Collins (1919 - )
- Just definitions either prevent or put an end to a dispute.
- Nathaniel Emmons
- Refrain from doing ill; for one all powerful reason, lest our children should copy our misdeeds; we are all too prone to imitate whatever is base and depraved.
- Juvenal (55 AD - 127 AD)
- I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.
- James Madison (1751 - 1836)
- Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything good in the world.
- Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)
- Of two evils we must always choose the least.
- Thomas a Kempis (1380 - 1471)
- The virtuous man is never a novice in worldly things.
- Marcus Valerius Martialis (40 AD - 103 AD)
- Even pleasure itself is a toil.
- Manilius (~1 BC)
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