No matter where you're going it's the wrong place
Ennius was the father of Roman poetry, because he first introduced into Latin the Greek manner and in particular the hexameter metre.
The ape, vilest of beasts, how like to us.
Let no one pay me honor with tears, nor celebrate my funeral rites with weeping.
He whose wisdom cannot help him, gets no good from being wise.
One man restored our fortunes by delay. [By skilfully avoiding an engagement, Fabius exhausted the resources of the enemy. ]
That is true liberty, which bears a pure and firm breast.
This pride of race is a quality which the German, fundamentally, does not possess. The reason for this is that for these last three centuries the country has been torn by internal dissension and religious wars and has been subjected to a variety of foreign influences, to the influence, for example, of Christianity-for Christianity is not a natural religion for the Germans, but a religion that has been imported and which strikes no responsive chord in their hearts and is foreign to the inherent genius of the race. (13th February 1945)
Hunger, love, vanity, and fear. There are four great motives of human action.
He who multiplies riches multiplies cares.
There is nothing like an odor to stir memories.