What good does education do us? It makes our characters more polished; it does not make them better. Maximus, Valerius. Valerius Maximus,...

Can we imagine how distinguished Menenius Agrippa must have been if the Senate and plebs chose him as the man to make peace between them?...

Alexander may have acquired the reputation of being unconquerable, but he was unable to conquer the self-restraint of Diogenes the Cynic....

Thomas Paine: The American Crisis, Number 1 There is a natural firmness in some minds which cannot be unlocked by trifles, but which,...

There are those in the World who would not wrong a Neighbour, but make no Scruple of cheating the King. The Reverse however does not...

At the same time he made it clear that his own view of Stalin was a high one.” Then Churchill shifted his comments to Roosevelt. His...

Thus fell Agis. His brother Archidamus was too quick for Leonidas, and saved himself by a timely retreat. But his wife, then mother of a...

Cato’s assiduity also, and indefatigable diligence, won very much upon the people. He always came first of any of his colleagues to the...

But, it will be said, old men are fretful, fidgety, ill-tempered, and disagreeable. If you come to that, they are also avaricious. But...

Lucullus was an Ambassador of Rome sent by his commander to Egypt who was at ward with Rome:

Despite her finagling, Mary found herself in trouble shortly before the New Year when more bills arrived with no money left in the account. She had no recourse but to tell her husband what had happened and to beg him to ask for an additional appropriation. To bolster her case, she asked Benjamin French, the new Commissioner of Public Buildings, to speak with her husband. French caught up with the president shortly after he returned home from a memorial service in the Senate f

Alexander Hamilton:

I believe it is impossible for a man, though he has all the cunning of a devil, to live and die a villain, and yet conceal it so well as to carry the name of an honest fellow to the grave with him, but some one, by some accident or other, shall discover him. Truth and sincerity have a certain distinguishing native luster about them, which cannot be perfectly counterfeited; they are like fire and flame, that cannot be painted.

Epictetus, "Now deeds that correspond to his true nature strengthen and preserve each particular man; carpentry does that for the carpenter, grammatical studies for the grammarian. But if a man acquires the habit of writing ungrammatically, his art must necessarily be destroyed and perish. So modest acts preserve the modest man, whereas immodest acts destroy him; and faithful acts preserve the faithful man while acts of the opposite character destroy him. And again, acts of t

Solon’s counsel to men,

Plato on Highest Nobility: