Wars are begun by frightened men.
The noblest people are those despising wealth , learning , pleasure and life ; esteeming above them poverty , ignorance , hardship and death.
Chilo advised, "not to speak evil of the dead. "
The sacrifice of Diogenes to all the gods.
The health and vigor necessary for the practice of what is good, depend equally on both mind and body.
It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.
The chief good is the suspension of the judgment [especially negative judgement], which tranquillity of mind follows like its shadow.
One good turn asketh another.
They are the kind of people who are embarrassed by money, a dead middle-class giveaway. Poor people are not embarrassed by money and are contemptuous of those who are.
You believe that a lover will bring you love, but it is your love that will bring you a lover.
In the course of his long, turbulent career, W. E. B. Du Bois attempted virtually every possible solution to the problem of twentieth-century racism. . . scholarship, propaganda, integration, national self-determination, human rights, cultural and economic separatism, politics, international communism, expatriation, third world solidarity.