Nihil tam acerbum est in quo non æquus animus solatium inveniat. There is nothing so disagreeable, that a patient mind can not find some solace for it.
There is no genius without a mixture of madness.
What difference does it make, after all, what your position in life is if you dislike it yourself?
When once ambition has passed its natural limits, its progress is boundless.
Time is the one thing that is given to everyone in equal measure.
Watch over yourself. Be your own accuser, then your judge; ask yourself grace sometimes, and, if there is need, impose upon yourself some pain.
A man afraid of death will never play the part of a live man.
Truths open to everyone, and the claims aren't all staked yet.
I am telling you to be a slow-speaking person.
A good mind is a lord of a kingdom.
Reasons for anxiety will never be lacking, whether born of prosperity or of wretchedness; life pushes on in a succession of engrossments. We shall always pray for leisure.
It is man's duty to live in conformity with the divine will, and this means, firstly, bringing his life into line with 'nature's laws', and secondly, resigning himself completely and uncomplainingly to whatever fate may send him. Only by living thus, and not setting too high a value on things which can at any moment be taken away from him, can he discover that true, unshakeable peace and contentment to which ambition, luxury and above all avarice are among the greatest obstacles.
The acquisition of riches has been to many not an end to their miseries, but a change in them: The fault is not in the riches, but the disposition.
Before old age I took care to live well; in old age I take care to die well; but to die well is to die willingly.
The evil which assails us is not in the localities we inhabit but in ourselves. We lack strength to endure the least task, being incapable of suffering pain, powerless to enjoy pleasure, impatient with everything. How many invoke death when, after having tried every sort of change, they find themselves reverting to the same sensations, unable to discover any new experience.
Poverty needs much, avarice everything.
Remember, not one penny can we take with us into the unknown land.
It is proof of a bad cause when it is applauded by the mob.
Nothing is more disgraceful than that an old man should have nothing to show to prove that he has lived long, except his years.
There are more people abusive to others than lie open to abuse themselves; but the humor goes round, and he that laughs at me today will have somebody to laugh at him tomorrow.
There is more heroism in self-denial than in deeds of arms.
Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.
This life is only a prelude to eternity.
Levity of behavior is the bane of all that is good and virtuous.
What you do for an ungrateful man is thrown away.
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