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The public have more interest in the punishment of an injury than he who receives it. - [Punishment] This is my firm persuasion, that since the human soul exerts itself with so great activity, since it has such a remembrance of the best, such a concern for the future, since it is enriched with so many arts, sciences, and discoveries, it is impossible but the being which contains all these must be immortal. - [Soul] Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it. - [Crime] To succeed in the world, it is much more necessary to possess the penetration to discover who is a fool than to discover who is a clever man. - [Fools] Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise. - in Plutarch's "Life of Cato" [Wisdom] The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new. - attributed to Apothegms (no. 247), by Bacon [Action] Buy not what you want, but what you have need of; what you do not want is dear at a farthing. [Lat., Emas non quod opus est, sed quod necesse est. Quod non opus est, asse carum est.] - Epistles (94), as quoted by Seneca [Economy] Displaying page 2 of 2 for this author: << Prev 1 [2]
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