Life is most delightful on the downward slope.
Whatever has overstepped its due bounds is always in a state of instability.
We should live as if we were in public view, and think, too, as if someone could peer into the inmost recesses of our hearts-which someone can!
What should a wise person do when given a blow? Same as Cato when he was attacked; not fire up or revenge the insult., or even return the blow, but simply ignore it.
The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.
Men's language is as their lives.
The man who thinks only of his own generation is born for few.
There is nothing more despicable than an old man who has no other proof than his age to offer of his having lived long in the world.
If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.
It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth.
They who have light in themselves will not revolve as satellites.
A good mind possesses a kingdom.
Our minds must relax: they will rise better and keener after rest. Just as you must not force fertile farmland, as uninterrupted productivity will soon exhaust it, so constant effort will sap our mental vigour, while a short period of rest and relaxation will restore our powers. Unremitting effort leads to a kind of mental dullness and lethargy.
We must take care to live not merely a long life, but a full one; for living a long life requires only good fortune, but living a full life requires character. Long is the life that is fully lived; it is fulfilled only when the mind supplies its own good qualities and empowers itself from within.
Every guilty person is his own hangman.
Long is the road to learning by precepts, but short and successful by examples.
The worse a person is the less he feels it.
The man who has learned to triumph over sorrow wears his miseries as though they were sacred fillets upon his brow; and nothing is so entirely admirable as a man bravely wretched.
A lesson that is never learned can never be too often taught.
Rehearse death. To say this is to tell a person to rehearse his freedom. A person who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave. He is above, or at any rate, beyond the reach of, all political powers.
A good character is the only guarantee of everlasting, carefree happiness.
He who is penitent is almost innocent.
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
Whatever one of us blames in another, each one will find in his own heart.
The wise man will always reflect concerning the quality not the quantity of life.
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