A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant.
Human nature is so constituted that insults sink deeper than kindnesses; the remembrance of the latter soon passes away, while that of the former is treasured in the memory.
What a vile and abject thing is man if he do not raise himself above humanity.
Great men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.
Humanity is fortunate, because no man is unhappy except by his own fault.
You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
Now we are not merely to stick knowledge on to the soul: we must incorporate it into her; the soul should not be sprinkled with knowledge but steeped in it.
Why will no man confess his faults? Because he continues to indulge in them; a man cannot tell his dream till he wakes.
You want to live-but do you know how to live? You are scared of dying-and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different from being dead?
That which we are not permitted to have we delight in; that which we can have is disregarded.
Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.
The best ideas are common property.
Let not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp, be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition.
It is not goodness to be better than the worst.
Life is a gift of the immortal Gods, but living well is the gift of philosophy.
Night brings our troubles to the light, rather than banishes them.
A great, a good, and a right mind is a kind of divinity lodged in flesh, and may be the blessing of a slave as well as of a prince: it came from heaven, and to heaven it must return; and it is a kind of heavenly felicity, which a pure and virtuous mind enjoys, in some degree, even upon earth.
The largest part of goodness is the will to become good.
I know that nothing comes to pass but what God appoints; our fate is decreed, and things do not happen by chance, but every man's portion of joy and sorrow is predetermined.
Epileptics know by signs when attacks are imminent and take precautions accordingly; we must do the same in regard to anger
He that does good to another does good also to himself, not only in the consequence but in the very act. For the consciousness of well-doing is in itself ample reward.
The sun shines even on the wicked.
What-so-ever the mind has ordained for itself, it has achieved
Let us cherish and love old age; for it is full of pleasure, if you know how to use it. The best morsel is reserved for last.
Tranqility is a certain quality of mind, which no condition or fortune can either exalt or depress.
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