People Generally Despise Where They Flatter.

Of All The Varieties Of Virtues, Liberalism Is The Most Beloved.

Greatness Of Spirit Is To Bear Finely Both Good Fourtune And Bad, Honor And Disgrace, And Not To Think Highly Of Luxury Or Attention Or Power Or Victories In Contests, And To Possess A Certain Depth And Magnitude Of Spirit.

Poetry Is Finer And More Philosophical Than History; For Poetry Expresses The Universal, And History Only The Particular.

The Whole Is More Than The Sum Of Its Parts.

Courage Is The First Virtue That Makes All Other Virtues Possible.