We should every night call ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.
Obedience is yielded more readily to one who commands gently.
You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.
Life without the courage to die is slavery.
No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.
It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence.
There is nothing that we can properly call our own but our time, and yet everybody fools us out of it who has a mind to do it. If a man borrows a paltry sum of money, there must needs be bonds and securities, and every common civility is presently charged upon account. But he who has my time thinks he owes me nothing for it, though it be a debt that gratitude itself can never repay.
The most miserable mortals are they that deliver themselves up to their palates, or to their lusts; the pleasure is short, and turns presently nauseous, and the end of it is either shame or repentance.
You cease to be afraid when you cease to hope; for hope is accompanied by fear.
To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.
In whatever direction you turn, you will see God coming to meet you; nothing is void of him, he himself fills all his work.
Nothing is ours except time.
To forgive all is as inhuman as to forgive none
You cannot escape necessities, but you can overcome them.
When you see a man in distress, recognize him as a fellow man.
To see a man fearless in dangers, untainted with lusts, happy in adversity, composed in a tumult, and laughing at all those things which are generally either coveted or feared, all men must acknowledge that this can be from nothing else but a beam of divinity that influences a mortal body.
It is the power of the mind to be unconquerable.
There's one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude: confidence in self.
There in no one more unfortunate than the man who has never been unfortunate. for it has never been in his power to try himself.
No man is free who is a slave to the flesh.
We learn not in the school, but in life.
Time hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal.
It is within the power of every man to live his life nobly, but of no man to live forever. Yet so many of us hope that life will go on forever, and so few aspire to live nobly.
Speech is the mirror of the mind.
We are always complaining that our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end to them.
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