Classic Moments Daily

The river of Time

Fear not change

How can we praise a dominion who incites such abominable things

The misfortune of empire

Convert young men to good

The advantages of Justice and Injustice

Adding point after point until little by little we involve ourselves in utter irrelevancies

Take some thought of your ancestors and not be negligent of the piety due to them

For beautiful things, we have an inborn passion

Forsake not the old

Poets, depicting life itself, select the noblest actions and so through argument and demonstration convert men's hearts

Venus yields to caresses, not compulsion

It takes a brave and heroic soul to hold as slight what most people think grand and glorious

Do deeds not only useful but arduous

Ambitious men find it difficult to preserve a spirit of fairness

Keep neither a blunt knife nor an ill-disciplined looseness of tongue

Old age does not diminish a mortal's excellence

Admiration wanes with the least reverse

Emulate those who have made best use of what they already have

Blame is the foundation of enmity