The secret of success is that it is not the absence of failure, but the absence of envy.
If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it.
Adversity has the effect of drawing out strength and qualities of a man that would have laid dormant in its absence.
Haste in every business brings failures.
But this I know: if all mankind were to take their troubles to market with the idea of exchanging them, anyone seeing what his neighbor's troubles were like would be glad to go home with his own.
Men trust their ears less than their eyes.
The most hateful grief of all human griefs is to have knowledge of a truth, but no power over the event.
Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.
Where wisdom is called for, force is of little use.
In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.
When a woman removes her garment, she also removes the respect that is hers.
Happiness is not fame or riches or heroic virtues, but a state that will inspire posterity to think in reflecting upon our life, that it was the life they would wish to live.
I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.
Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.
To think well and to consent to obey someone giving good advice are the same thing.
It is better to be envied than pitied.
The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.
All of life is action and passion, and not to be involved in the actions and passions of your time is to risk having not really lived at all.
Great things are won by great dangers.
Let there be nothing untried; for nothing happens by itself, but men obtain all things by trying.
Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.
If one is sufficiently lavish with time, everything possible happens.
He is the best man who, when making his plans, fears and reflects on everything that can happen to him, but in the moment of action is bold.
Force has no place where there is need of skill.
The worst pain a man can have is to know much and be impotent to act.
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