The worst pain a man can have is to know much and be impotent to act.
There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.
All men's gains are the fruit of venturing.
Those who are skilled in archery bend their bow only when they are preparing to use it; when they do not require it, they allow it to remain unbent, for otherwise it would remain unserviceable when the time for using it arrived. So it is with man. If he were to devote himself unceasingly to a dull round of business, without breaking the monotony by cheerful amusements, he would fall imperceptibly into idiocy, or be struck by paralysis
Force has no place where there is need of skill.
I am bound to tell what I am told, but not in every case to believe it.
The man who has planned badly, if fortune is on his side, may have had a stroke of luck; but his plan was a bad one nonetheless.
A man calumniated is doubly injured -- first by him who utters the calumny, and then by him who believes it.
If you have two loaves of bread, keep one to nourish the body, but sell the other to buy hyacinths for the soul.
If anyone, no matter who, were given the opportunity of choosing from amongst all the nations in the world the set of beliefs which he thought best, he would inevitably—after careful considerations of their relative merits—choose that of his own country. Everyone without exception believes his own native customs, and the religion he was brought up in, to be the best.
As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning.
A real friend ... exults in his friends happiness, rejoices in all his joys, and is ready to afford him the best advice.
Call no man happy before he dies.
The worst part a man can suffer is to have insight into much and power over nothing.
We are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see.
The ear is a less trustworthy witness than the eye.
The trials of living and the pangs of disease make even the short span of life too long.
It is a law of nature that fainthearted men should be the fruit of luxurious countries, for we never find that the same soil produces delicacies and heroes.
Dreams in general take their rise from those incidents which have most occupied the thoughts during the day.
The sun will not shine on any country that has borders with ours.
Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.
Calumny is a monstrous vice: for, where parties indulge in it, there are always two that are actively engaged in doing wrong, and one who is subject to injury. The calumniator inflicts wrong by slandering the absent; he who gives credit to the calumny before he has investigated the truth is equally implicated. The person traduced is doubly injured--first by him who propagates, and secondly by him who credits the calumny.
But I like not these great successes of yours; for I know how jealous are the gods.
Love of honor is a very shady sort of possession.
History is marked by alternating movements across the imaginary line that separates East from West in Eurasia.
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