Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.

Topics: Action Quotes

Even the gods love jokes

Even the gods love jokes

Books are immortal sons deifying their sires

Books are immortal sons deifying their sires

Love is a serious mental disease.

Love is a serious mental disease.

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.

Someday, in the distant future, our grandchildren's grandchildren will develop a new equivalent of our...

Someday, in the distant future, our grandchildren's grandchildren will develop a new equivalent of our...

Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole,...

Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole,...

Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by...

Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by...

It is right to give every man his due.

It is right to give every man his due.

Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed...

Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed...

Wealth and poverty: the one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other...

Wealth and poverty: the one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other...

Pleasure is the bait of sin

Pleasure is the bait of sin

Courage is knowing what not to fear.

Courage is knowing what not to fear.

Not to help justice in her need would be an impiety.

Not to help justice in her need would be an impiety.

Justice means minding one's own business and not meddling with other men's concerns.

Justice means minding one's own business and not meddling with other men's concerns.

I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come...

I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come...

There is no such thing as a lovers' oath.

There is no such thing as a lovers' oath.

In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to...

In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to...

Necessity... the mother of invention.

Necessity... the mother of invention.

People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a...

People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a...

Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.

Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.