Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit.
He that does good to another does good also to himself.
If you don't know what port you are sailing to, no wind is favourable.
I can see clothes of silk, if materials that do not hide the body, nor even one's decency, can be called clothes. ... Wretched flocks of maids labor so that the adulteress may be visible through her thin dress, so that her husband has no more acquaintance than any outsider or foreigner with his wife's body.
This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time.
Nature does not reveal all her secrets at once. We imagine we are initiated in her mysteries: we are, as yet, but hanging around her outer courts.
The real compensation of a right action is inherent in having performed it.
All art is but imitation of nature.
Mercy often inflicts death.
Shall I tell you what philosophy holds out to humanity? Counsel...You are called in to help the unhappy.
Death is sometimes a punishment, often a gift; to many it has been a favor.
That which takes effect by chance is not an art.
An age builds up cities: an hour destroys them.
Life is short and art is long.
Let no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.
It's the great soul that surrenders itself to fate, but a puny degenerate thing that struggles.
A troubled countenance oft discloses much.
Fate rules the affairs of men, with no recognizable order.
Life without the courage for death is slavery.
Genius has never been accepted without a measure of condonement.
Fine conduct is always spontaneous.
No book can be so good, as to be profitable when negligently read.
Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God.
Do not ask for what you will wish you had not got.
The profit on a good action is to have done it.
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