No man is free who is a slave to the flesh.
For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
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.
There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.
No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.
If wisdom were offered me with this restriction, that I should keep it close and not communicate it, I would refuse the gift.
What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law.
He who is brave is free.
To govern was to serve, not to rule.
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.
Luck is preparation multiplied by opportunity.
No one can keep a mask on long.
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 cure for anger is delay.
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.
Misfortune is the test of a person's merit.
The Best sign of Wisdom is the consistency between the words and deeds.
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.
True happiness is...to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
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.
Demand not that I am the equal of the greatest, only that I am better than the wicked.
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