If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. You may read more

If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. You may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all the time; but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.

Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active read more

Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation.

While intelligent people can often simplify the complex, a fool is more likely to complicate the simple.

While intelligent people can often simplify the complex, a fool is more likely to complicate the simple.

Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.

Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.

Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least.

Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least.

For the theatre one needs long arms; it is better to have them too long than too short. An artiste read more

For the theatre one needs long arms; it is better to have them too long than too short. An artiste with short arms can never, never make a fine gesture.

Never practice two vices at once.

Never practice two vices at once.

Be curious always! For knowledge will not acquire you: you must acquire it.

Be curious always! For knowledge will not acquire you: you must acquire it.

There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.

There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.