Category: Quotes and Sayings
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#Quote – Amschel Mayer Rothschild
Permit me to issue and control the money of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws.–His son, Amschel Mayer Rothschild
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#Quote – Lorraine Hansberry
The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.–Lorraine Hansberry
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#Quote – Oliver Goldsmith
To aim at excellence, our reputation, and friends, and all must be ventured; to aim at the average we run no risk and provide little service.–Oliver Goldsmith
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#Quote – Marquis De Vauvenargues
You must rouse into people’s consciousness their own prudence and strength, if you want to raise their character.–Marquis De Vauvenargues
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#Quote – Marcus Tullius Cicero
So let us regard this as settled: what is morally wrong can never be advantageous, even when it enables you to make some gain that you believe to be to your advantage. The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious.–Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 B.C.)
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#Quote – Carlos Buonapartos
If freedom could be had for the wishing, everyone would be free, but an unfaltering attachment to freedom, rising above all difficulties and based on facts, not appearances, is rarely found in men, and that is why those who do possess that attachment are considered virtually superhuman.–Carlos Buonapartos (Father of Napoleon)