Many shed tears merely for show, and have dry eyes when no one's around to observe them.
Retirement without the love of letters is a living burial.
Disease is not of the body but of the place.
Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
In my own time there have been inventions of this sort, transparent windows tubes for diffusing warmth equally through all parts of a building short-hand, which has been carried to such a perfection that a writer can keep pace with the most rapid speaker. But the inventing of such things is drudgery for the lowest slaves; philosophy lies deeper. It is not her office to teach men how to use their hands. The object of her lessons is to form the soul.
There are a few men whom slavery holds fast, but there are many more who hold fast to slavery.
It was the saying of a great man, that if we could trace our descents, we should find all slaves to come from princes, and all princes from slaves; and fortune has turned all things topsy-turvy in a long series of revolutions; beside, for a man to spend his life in pursuit of a title, that serves only when he dies to furnish out an epitaph, is below a wise man's business.
Fidelity bought with money is overcome by money.
If sensuality were happiness, beasts were happier than men; but human felicity is lodged in the soul, not in the flesh.
Be not too hasty either with praise or blame; speak always as though you were giving evidence before the judgement-seat of the Gods.
Nobody becomes guilty by fate.
The whole duty of man is embraced in the two principles of abstinence and patience: temperance in prosperity, and patient courage in adversity.
What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.
Reason wishes that the judgement it gives be just; anger wishes that the judgement it has given seem to be just.
Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence. -Diligentia maximum etiam mediocris ingeni subsidium
The language of truth is unvarnished enough.
Freedom can't be bought for nothing. If you hold her precious, you must hold all else of little worth.
Virtue depends partly upon training and partly upon practice; you must learn first, and then strengthen your learning by action. If this be true, not only do the doctrines of wisdom help us but the precepts also, which check and banish our emotions by a sort of official decree.
Servitude seizes on few, but many seize on her.
Nothing will ever please me, no matter how excellent or beneficial, if I must retain the knowledge of it to myself. . . . . . No good thing is pleasant to possess, without friends to share it.
The fates lead the willing, and drag the unwilling.
What need is there to weep over parts of life? The whole of it calls for tears.
A great step toward independence is a good-humoured stomach.
Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember.
One who's our friend is fond of us; one who's fond of us isn't necessarily our friend.
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