The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbor.
We rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life, and who, content with his life, can retire from the world like a satisfied guest.
No man is born without faults.
Get money; by just means. if you can; if not, still get money.
That man scorches with his brightness, who overpowers inferior capacities, yet he shall be revered when dead.
Let hopes and sorrows, fears and angers be, And think each day that dawns the last you'll see; For so the hour that greets you unforeseen Will bring with it enjoyment twice as keen.
To have a great man for an intimate friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it. [Lat., Dulcis inexpertis cultura potentis amici; Expertus metuit.]
The man who is tenacious of purpose in a rightful cause is not shaken from his firm resolve by the frenzy of his fellow citizens clamoring for what is wrong, or by the tyrant's threatening countenance.
Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers.
The miser acquires, yet fears to use his gains.
What does not wasting time change! The age of our parents, worse than that of our grandsires, has brought us forth more impious still, and we shall produce a more vicious progeny.
Whatever you advise, be as brief as possible.
He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.
It is not every man that can afford to go to Corinth.
Pale Death beats equally at the poor man's gate and at the palaces of kings.
Drive Nature from your door with a pitchfork, and she will return again and again.
Virtue consists in fleeing vice.
Day is pushed out by day, and each new moon hastens to its death. [Lat., Truditur dies die, Novaeque pergunt interire lunae.]
A leech that will not quit the skin until sated with blood.
Virtue lies half way between two opposite vices.
Splendidly mendacious. [Lat., Splendide mendax.]
Patience makes lighter / What sorrow may not heal. ("sed levius fit patientia quidquid corrigere est nefas")
Being, be bold and venture to be wise.
Here, or nowhere, is the thing we seek.
Why harass with eternal purposes a mind to weak to grasp them?
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