You must know for which harbor you are headed, if you are to catch the right wind to take you there.
Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.
I have withdrawn not only from men, but from affairs, especially my own affairs; I am working for later generations, writing down some ideas that may be of assistance to them.
To err is human. To repeat error is of the Devil.
Economy is in itself a great source of revenue.
Small sorrows speak great ones are silent.
He is ungrateful who denies that he has received a kindness which has been bestowed upon him; he is ungrateful who conceals it; he is ungrateful who makes no return for it; most ungrateful of all is he who forgets it.
Virtue depends partly upon training and partly upon practice; you must learn first, and then strengthen your learning by actions.
Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.
Philosophy is the health of the mind.
If we desire to judge justly, we must persuade ourselves that none of us is without sin.
Leisure without study is death, and the grave of a living man.
He who fears from near at hand often fears less.
The evil which assails us is not in the localities we inhabit but in ourselves.
It is the practice of the multitude to bark at eminent men, as little dogs do at strangers.
Our (the Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature.
Epicurus says that you should rather have regard to the company with whom you eat and drink, than to what you eat and drink.
Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher
Do you desire not to be angry? Be not inquisitive. He who inquires what is said of him only works out his own misery.
Some cures are worse than the dangers they combat.
Learn how to feel joy.
He who does not prevent a crime, when he can, encourages it.
Virtue is that perfect good, which is the complement of a happy life; the only immortal thing that belongs to mortality.
The intellect must not be kept at consistent tension, but diverted by pastimes.... The mind must have relaxation, and will rise stronger and keener after recreation.
So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.
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