Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.
Philosophy finds talkativeness a disease very difficult and hard to cure. For its remedy, conversation, requires hearers: but talkative people hear nobody, for they are ever prating. And the first evil this inability to keep silence produces is an inability to listen.
A fool cannot hold his tongue.
To conduct great matters and never commit a fault is above the force of human nature.
Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.
The measure of a man's life is the well spending of it, and not the length.
The superstitious man wishes he did not believe in gods, as the atheist does not, but fears to disbelieve in them.
The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.
It is no disgrace not to be able to do everything; but to undertake, or pretend to do, what you are not made for, is not only shameful, but extremely troublesome and vexatious.
The omission of good is no less reprehensible than the commission of evil.
We are more sensible of what is done against custom than against nature.
Vos vestros servate, meos mihi linquite mores You keep to your own ways, and leave mine to me
Nature and wisdom never are at strife.
Nothing can produce so great a serenity of life as a mind free from guilt and kept untainted, not only from actions, but purposes that are wicked. By this means the soul will be not only unpolluted but also undisturbed. The fountain will run clear and unsullied.
Anger turns the mind out of doors and bolts the entrance.
The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.
A Roman divorced from his wife, being highly blamed by his friends, who demanded, "Was she not chaste? Was she not fair? Was she not fruitful?" holding out his shoe, asked them whether it was not new and well made. "Yet," added he, "none of you can tell where it pinches me.''
The state of life is most happy where superfluities are not required and necessities are not wanting.
Remember what Simonides said, that he never repented that he had held his tongue, but often that he had spoken.
It is the usual consolation of the envious, if they cannot maintain their superiority, to represent those by whom they are surpassed as inferior to some one else.
It is not the most distinguished achievements that men's virtues or vices may be best discovered; but very often an action of small note. An casual remark or joke shall distinguish a person's real character more than the greatest sieges, or the most important battles.
Vultures are the most righteous of birds: they do not attack even the smallest living creature.
The authors of great evils know best how to remove them.
Lysander said that the law spoke too softly to be heard in such a noise of war.
Friendship requires a steady, constant, and unchangeable character, a person that is uniform in his intimacy.
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