Classic Moments Daily

Beauty is most regal if joined with modesty and sobriety

Hallmarks of an oligarchy

The enviable ornament of excellence

Those who have demonstrated poor business judgment should not be consulted about business

Blame is the foundation of enmity

Mistrust bad men as you would trust the good

Great things are achieved not by strength but reflection and judgment

Talk is easily raised but difficult to be rid of

Cherished friendships last through eternity

Be neither a friend of rogues or slanderer of good men

Proportion is best in all things

Poverty consists in increasing one's greed

No honor in heedless folly and unseasonable ambition

It is not the giving of the bribe but the taking that is base

Pleasant words, though false, are convincing

The influence of punishment and reward

When ambition overshadows justice

Those who do not oppose wrong are just as guilty

Bind society together with acts of kindness

Propriety and order bring moral dignity

Argument and persuasion inflates the uninstructed and weak

Striving to be purple instead of common thread

Achieving temperate conduct

Concealment will gain neither honor nor justice

Discrediting those to whom the people gave their trust

Unjust slander

Attempting to avoid things in the power of others

Weak men prevail to their own injury

Rulers who maltreat anyone they wish

Deliver your citizens from fear

Allow no outrage