True happiness is...to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
The rust of the mind is the destruction of genius.
If you live according to nature, you never will be poor; if according to the world's caprice, you will never be rich.
A consciousness of wrongdoing is the first step to salvation...you have to catch yourself doing it before you can correct it.
No man is free who is a slave to the flesh.
If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.
We should every night call ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.
No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.
To govern was to serve, not to rule.
If wisdom were offered me with this restriction, that I should keep it close and not communicate it, I would refuse the gift.
Luck is preparation multiplied by opportunity.
No one can keep a mask on long.
What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law.
We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.
I don't trust liberals, I trust conservatives.
It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.
Our minds must relax: they will rise better and keener after rest. Just as you must not force fertile farmland, as uninterrupted productivity will soon exhaust it, so constant effort will sap our mental vigour, while a short period of rest and relaxation will restore our powers. Unremitting effort leads to a kind of mental dullness and lethargy.
The Best sign of Wisdom is the consistency between the words and deeds.
Misfortune is the test of a person's merit.
If thou wishest to get rid of thy evil propensities, thou must keep far from evil companions.
To make another person hold his tongue, be you first silent.
Many person might have achieved wisdom had they not supposed that they already possessed it.
There is nothing that we can properly call our own but our time, and yet everybody fools us out of it who has a mind to do it. If a man borrows a paltry sum of money, there must needs be bonds and securities, and every common civility is presently charged upon account. But he who has my time thinks he owes me nothing for it, though it be a debt that gratitude itself can never repay.
We learn not in the school, but in life.
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