What a vile and abject thing is man if he do not raise himself above humanity.
Great men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.
The man who has learned to triumph over sorrow wears his miseries as though they were sacred fillets upon his brow; and nothing is so entirely admirable as a man bravely wretched.
The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.
Human nature is so constituted that insults sink deeper than kindnesses; the remembrance of the latter soon passes away, while that of the former is treasured in the memory.
It is to the interest of the commonwealth of mankind that there should be someone who is unconquered, someone against whom fortune has no power.
It is often better not to see an insult than to avenge it.
It is not goodness to be better than the worst.
Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment.
Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.
The largest part of goodness is the will to become good.
The best ideas are common property.
The sun shines even on the wicked.
Let not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp, be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition.
The greatest wealth is a poverty of desires.
Do the best you can . . . enjoy the present . . . rest satisfied with what you have.
Why will no man confess his faults? Because he continues to indulge in them; a man cannot tell his dream till he wakes.
Epileptics know by signs when attacks are imminent and take precautions accordingly; we must do the same in regard to anger
As many servants so many enemies.
Unblest is he who thinks himself unblest.
Now we are not merely to stick knowledge on to the soul: we must incorporate it into her; the soul should not be sprinkled with knowledge but steeped in it.
Humanity is fortunate, because no man is unhappy except by his own fault.
Delay not; swift the flight of fortune's greatest favours.
He that does good to another does good also to himself, not only in the consequence but in the very act. For the consciousness of well-doing is in itself ample reward.
Tranqility is a certain quality of mind, which no condition or fortune can either exalt or depress.
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