Virtue is shut out from no one; she is open to all, accepts all, invites all, gentlemen, freedmen, slaves, kings, and exiles; she selects neither house nor fortune; she is satisfied with a human being without adjuncts.
A coward calls himself cautious, a miser thrifty.
I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open?
A man's ability cannot possibly be of one sort and his soul of another. If his soul be well-ordered, serious and restrained, his ability also is sound and sober. Conversely, when the one degenerates, the other is contaminated.
It is not how many books thou hast, but how good; careful reading profiteth, while that which is full of variety delighteth.
The kind of solace that arises from having company in misery is spiteful.
What else is nature but God?
It is only luxury and avarice that make poverty grievous to us; for it is a very small matter that does our business, and when we have provided against cold, hunger, and thirst, all the rest is but vanity and excess.
There is nothing the wise man does reluctantly.
The worst thing about getting old is evil men cease to fear you
A man's as miserable as he thinks he is.
One crime has to be concealed by another.
Refrain from following the example of those whose craving is for attention, not their own improvement.
So live with an inferior as you would wish a superior to live with you.
As long as you live, learn how to live.
So called pleasures, when they go beyond a certain limit, are but punishments.
An unpopular rule is never long maintained.
A favor is to a grateful man delightful always; to an ungrateful man only once.
There has never been any great genius without a spice of madness.
We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.
Fortune dreads the brave, and is only terrible to the coward.
My joy in learning is partly that it enables me to teach.
The most onerous slavery is to be a slave to oneself.
It is the mind that makes us rich and happy, in what condition soever we are, and money signifies no more to it than it does to the gods.
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