The national budget must be balanced. The public debt must be reduced; the arrogance of the authorities must be moderated and controlled. Payments to foreign governments must be reduced, if the nation doesn't want to go bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance.
No man can be brave who thinks pain the greatest evil; nor temperate, who considers pleasure the highest good.
By doubting we come at truth.
The first law is that the historian shall never dare utter an untruth. The second is that he shall suppress nothing that is true. Also, there must be no suspicion of partiality ... or of malice.
Suo cuique iudicio est utendum.
[Each man must use his own judgement.]
To yield to occasion is the mark of a wise man.
If you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains; If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains.
What is so beneficial to the people as liberty, which we see not only to be greedily sought after by men, but also by beasts, and to be preferred to all things.
Wise men are instructed by reason; men of understanding, by experience; the most ignorant, by necessity; and beasts by nature.
Where is there dignity unless there is also honesty?
Nam et secundas res splendidiores facit amicitia et adversas partiens communicansque leviores.
[Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.]
There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it.
The good of the people is the chief law.
The more laws, the less justice.
The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust.
Persistence in a single view has never been regarded as a merit in political leaders.
Even if you have nothing to write, write and say so.
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Omne malum nascens facile opprimitur; inveteratum fit pleurumque robustius.
[Every evil in the bud is easily crushed: as it grows older, it becomes stronger.]
The name of peace is sweet, and the thing itself is beneficial, but there is a great difference between peace and servitude. Peace is freedom in tranquility, servitude is the worst of all evils, to be resisted not only by war, but even by death.
Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error.
A room without books is like a body without a soul.
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