Classic Moments Daily

All Men Crave Advantage

Tranquillity is more advantageous

Impute extreme folly and madness to those who think that injustice is advantageous

Remembering what remains to be done

Selecting the best course of action

Be mindful of contingencies

Not even those who possess the greatest fortunes are willing to rest satisfied

Discourse not advantageous to the state

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

The immortal gods implanted souls in human bodies so as to have beings who would care for the earth

In this our human life, with halting hopes, It is not glittering gold that rarest is

What is more unwise than to mistake uncertainty for certainty, falsehood for truth

Reflect upon the glory and the greatness of the deeds wrought by our country and our ancestors