Misfortune is the test of a person's merit.
Unblest is he who thinks himself unblest.
We live not according to reason, but according to fashion.
Human affairs are like a chess-game: only those who do not take it seriously can be called good players. Life is like an earthen pot: only when it is shattered, does it manifest its emptiness.
What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law.
The best way to do good to ourselves is to do it to others; the right way to gather is to scatter.
Nature has given us the seeds of knowledge, not knowledge itself.
No one is laughable who laughs at himself.
The mind, unless it is pure and holy, cannot see God.
The final hour when we cease to exist does not itself bring death; it merely of itself completes the death-process. We reach death at that moment, but we have been a long time on the way.
We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.
Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other; yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely; for science is but one.
If wisdom were offered me with this restriction, that I should keep it close and not communicate it, I would refuse the gift.
Nothing is so bitter that a calm mind cannot find comfort in it.
There exists no more difficult art than living.
What view is one likely to take of the state of a person's mind when his speech is wild and incoherent and knows no constraint?
The rust of the mind is the destruction of genius.
Delay not; swift the flight of fortune's greatest favours.
Everything may happen.
A well-governed appetite is a great part of liberty
Do the best you can . . . enjoy the present . . . rest satisfied with what you have.
Nothing, to my way of thinking, is a better proof of a well-ordered mind than a man's ability to stop just where he is and pass some time in his own company.
Men love their vices and hate them at the same time.
But when you are looking on anyone as a friend when you do not trust him as you trust yourself, you are making a grave mistake, and have failed to grasp sufficiently the full force of true friendship.
The man who while he gives thinks of what he will get in return, deserves to be deceived.
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