It's unknown the place and uncertain the time where death awaits you; thus you must expect death to find you, every time, at every place.
Without an adversary prowess shrivels. We see how great and efficient it really is only when it shows by endurance what it is capable of.
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.
As the world leads we follow.
Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough.
The great blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach; but we shut our eyes, and, like people in the dark, we fall foul upon the very thing we search for, without finding it.
The foundation of the true joy is in the conscience.
It is a proof of nobility of mind to despise injuries.
It is not that we have so little time but that we lose so much. ... The life we receive is not short but we make it so; we are not ill provided but use what we have wastefully.
Look at the stars lighting up the sky: no one of them stays in the same place.
True wisdom consists in not departing from nature and in molding our conduct according to her laws and model.
The foremost art of Kings is the power to endure hatred.
Forgive that you may be forgiven.
If you would judge, understand.
I am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use: my mind needs unpacking and the truths stored within must be turned over from time to time, to be ready when occasion demands.
I require myself not to be equal to the best, but to be better then the bad.
Gold is tried by fire, brave men by adversity.
The Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.
He that visits the sick in hopes of a legacy, but is never so friendly in all other cases, I look upon him as being no better than a raven that watches a weak sheep only to peck out its eyes.
Philosophy alone makes the mind invincible, and places us out of the reach of fortune, so that all her arrows fall short of us.
Death's the discharge of our debt of sorrow.
Remember that pain has this most excellent quality. If prolonged it cannot be severe, and if severe it cannot be prolonged.
It is remarkable that Providence has given us all things for our advantage near at hand; but iron, gold, and silver, being both the instruments of blood and slaughter and the price of it, nature has hidden in the bowels of the earth.
The philosopher: he alone knows how to live for himself. He is the one, in fact, who knows the fundamental thing: how to live.
Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.
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