Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and to take as a gift whatever the day brings forth. [Lat., Quid sit futurum cras, fuge quaerere: et Quem Fors dierum cunque dabit, lucro Appone.]
He is always a slave who cannot live on little.
Doctrina sed vim promovet insitam. Instruction enlarges the natural powers of the mind.
Whatever things injure your eye you are anxious to remove; but things which affect your mind you defer.
Virtue consists in avoiding vice, and is the highest wisdom. [Lat., Virtus est vitium fugere, et sapientia prima.]
I was what you are, you will be what I am.
Smooth out with wine the worries of a wrinkled brow.
All men do not admire and delight in the same objects.
We are more speedily and fatally corrupted by domestic examples of vice, and particularly when they are impressed on our minds as from authority.
Don't long for the unripe grape.
Teaching brings out innate powers, and proper training braces the intellect.
In the word of no master am I bound to believe.
Gold loves to make its way through guards, and breaks through barriers of stone more easily than the lightning's bolt.
Nature is harmony in discord.
When things are steep, remember to stay level-headed.
Who then is free? The wise who can command his passions, who fears not want, nor death, nor chains, firmly resisting his appetites and despising the honors of the world, who relies wholly on himself, whose angular points of character have all been rounded off and polished.
In going abroad we change the climate not our dispositions.
Work at it night and day.
He appears mad indeed but to a few, because the majority is infected with the same disease.
They change their skies, but not their souls who run across the sea.
Pleasure bought with pain does harm.
The illustration which solves one difficulty by raising another, settles nothing. [Lat., Nil agit exemplum, litem quod lite resolvit.]
Nothing is swifter than rumor.
Remember to preserve a calm soul amid difficulties.
Choose a subject equal to your abilities; think carefully what your shoulders may refuse, and what they are capable of bearing.
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