Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
Our fears are always more numerous than our dangers.
Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.
It is never too late to learn what is always necessary to know.
Associate with people who are likely to improve you.
Let us say what we feel, and feel what we say; let speech harmonize with life.
As the mother's womb holds us for ten months, making us ready, not for the womb itself, but for life, just so, through our lives, we are making ourselves ready for another birth...Therefore look forward without fear to that appointed hour- the last hour of the body, but not of the soul...That day, which you fear as being the end of all things, is the birthday of your eternity.
Fire proves gold, adversity proves men.
Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart.
When you die, it will not be because you are sick, but because you were alive.
For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
No one can long hide behind a mask; the pretense soon lapses into the true character.
A man is as unhappy as he has convinced himself he is.
The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution; who resists to sorest temptation from within and without; who bears the heaviest burdens cheerfully; who is calmest in storms, and most fearless under menaces and frowns; whose reliance on truth, on virtue, and on God is most unfaltering.
It is never too late to turn from the errors of our ways: He who repents of his sins is almost innocent.
A consciousness of wrongdoing is the first step to salvation...you have to catch yourself doing it before you can correct it.
No man ever became wise by chance.
No one can lead a happy life, or even one that is bearable, without the pursuit of wisdom, and that the perfection of wisdom is what makes the happy life, although even the beginnings of wisdom make life bearable. Yet this conviction, clear as it is, needs to be strengthened and given deeper roots through daily reflection; making noble resolutions is not a important as keeping the resolutions you have made already.
Many person might have achieved wisdom had they not supposed that they already possessed it.
Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
To make another person hold his tongue, be you first silent.
Demand not that I am the equal of the greatest, only that I am better than the wicked.
A man who examines the saddle and bridle and not the animal itself when he is out to buy a horse is a fool; similarly, only an absolute fool values a man according to his clothes, or according to his position, which after all is only something we wear like clothing.
He is a king who fears nothing, he is a king who desires nothing!
It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.
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