Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life.
A sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer.
Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
Let us say what we feel, and feel what we say; let speech harmonize with life.
It is never too late to learn what is always necessary to know.
Associate with people who are likely to improve you.
Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart.
As the mother's womb holds us for ten months, making us ready, not for the womb itself, but for life, just so, through our lives, we are making ourselves ready for another birth...Therefore look forward without fear to that appointed hour- the last hour of the body, but not of the soul...That day, which you fear as being the end of all things, is the birthday of your eternity.
Fire proves gold, adversity proves men.
For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
When you die, it will not be because you are sick, but because you were alive.
No one can long hide behind a mask; the pretense soon lapses into the true character.
No man ever became wise by chance.
It is never too late to turn from the errors of our ways: He who repents of his sins is almost innocent.
A man is as unhappy as he has convinced himself he is.
A consciousness of wrongdoing is the first step to salvation...you have to catch yourself doing it before you can correct it.
Demand not that I am the equal of the greatest, only that I am better than the wicked.
The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution; who resists to sorest temptation from within and without; who bears the heaviest burdens cheerfully; who is calmest in storms, and most fearless under menaces and frowns; whose reliance on truth, on virtue, and on God is most unfaltering.
To make another person hold his tongue, be you first silent.
No one can lead a happy life, or even one that is bearable, without the pursuit of wisdom, and that the perfection of wisdom is what makes the happy life, although even the beginnings of wisdom make life bearable. Yet this conviction, clear as it is, needs to be strengthened and given deeper roots through daily reflection; making noble resolutions is not a important as keeping the resolutions you have made already.
Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
Nothing is so contemptible as the sentiments of the mob.
He is a king who fears nothing, he is a king who desires nothing!
Many person might have achieved wisdom had they not supposed that they already possessed it.
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.
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