We are always complaining that our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end to them.
There's one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude: confidence in self.
Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all.
Money has never yet made anyone rich.
To strive with an equal is dangerous; with a superior, mad; with an inferior, degrading.
Time hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal.
After death there is nothing.
Never to wrong others takes one a long way towards peace of mind.
We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.
A good person dyes events with his own color . . . and turns whatever happens to his own benefit.
It takes the whole of life to learn how to live, and - even more surprising - it takes the whole of life to learn how to die.
Whatever begins, also ends.
You must live for another if you wish to live for yourself.
The greatest power of ruling consists in the exercise of self-control.
If you live according to nature, you never will be poor; if according to the world's caprice, you will never be rich.
Everything hangs on one's thinking.
There are no greater wretches in the world than many of those whom people in general take to be happy.
Those alone are wise who know how to love.
He, who will not pardon others, must not himself expect pardon.
We are born to lose and to perish, to hope and to fear, to vex ourselves and others; and there is no antidote against a common calamity but virtue; for the foundation of true joy is in the conscience.
The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.
No good thing is pleasant without friends to share it.
While we teach, we learn.
No man enjoys the true taste of life, but he who is ready and willing to quit it.
Some there are that torment themselves afresh with the memory of what is past; others, again, afflict themselves with the apprehension of evils to come; and very ridiculously both - for the one does not now concern us, and the other not yet ... One should count each day as a separate life.
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