These Macedonians Are A Rude And Clownish

What Most Of All Enables A Man To Serve The Public Is Not Wealth, But Content And Independence; Which, Requiring No Superfluity At Home, Distracts Not The Mind From The Common Good.

There Is No Perfecter Endowment In Man Than Political Virtue.

Do Not Speak Of Your Happiness To One Less Fortunate Than Yourself.

Rather I Fear On The Contrary That While We Banish Painful Thoughts We May Banish Memory As Well.

It Is Not Histories I Am Writing, But Lives; And In The Most Glorious Deeds There Is Not Always An Indication Of Virtue Or Vice, Indeed A Small Thing Like A Phrase Or A Jest Often Makes A Greater Revelation Of A Character Than Battles Where Thousands Die.