Classic Moments Daily

For how will it be possible for anyone to be a friend to a man who, he believes, may be his foe?

People who take sides with wrong doers and destroy those they envy, do these things, not because they are ignorant of the issues on which they are to vote, but because they intend to inflict injury

Some men, have been so brutalized by envy and want and are so hostile that they wage war, not on depravity, but on prosperity

Do not despise these men whom the multitude are wont to believe

if you please people, no matter what you do they will not judge your conduct by the facts

good men forgo, or permit themselves to be deprived of, many conveniences in order that their friends rather than themselves may enjoy them

But what is more foolish, when men are in the plenitude of resources and not procure friends

The multitude prefer those who cheat them with beaming smiles and brotherly love to those who serve them with dignity and reserve

Nothing in the world can be more insufferable than one of Fortune's fools

If you attend honestly to your enterprises abroad, the people at home also will think well of you

Power, if it be very great, is a bar to faithful friendships

The multitude like those who cultivate their favor better than those who seek their good.

Adopt the principle of doing what is most serviceable and noble and of saying what is most true and just

Tarquin as he was going into exile: “I have learned what friends of mine are true and what are false, now that I am no longer able to reward or punish either

Tyrants are courted under a pretense of affection, but only for a season. For when by chance they have fallen from power, as they generally do, then is it known how poor they were in friends

Can anyone love either the man whom he fears, or the man by whom he believes himself to be feared?

Nothing gives more pleasure than the return of goodwill and the interchange of zealous service

It is annoying to be too much involved in the affairs of other people