Nature has granted the use of life like a loan, without fixing any day for repayment.
Scurrility has no object in view but incivility; if it is uttered from feelings of petulance, it is mere abuse; if it is spoken in a joking manner, it may be considered raillery.
Nature herself makes the wise man rich.
O tempora! O mores! O what times (are these)! what morals!
In ancient times music was the foundation of all the sciences. Education was begun with music with the persuasion that nothing could be expected of a man who was ignorant of music.
We must be ever on the search for some persons whom we shall love and who will love us in return. If good will and affection are taken away, every joy is taken from life.
Sweet is the recollection of difficulties overcome.
Nothing is more praiseworthy, nothing more suited to a great and illustrious man than placability and a merciful disposition.
It is better to receive than to do injury.
Kindness is produced by kindness.
When I consider the wonderful activity of the mind, so great a memory of what is past, and such a capacity of penetrating into the future: when I behold such a number of arts and sciences, and such a multitude of discoveries hence arising,--I believe and am firmly persuaded that a nature which contains so many things within itself cannot be mortal.
The face is a picture of the mind with the eyes as its interpreter.
Persistence in a single view has never been regarded as a merit in political leaders.
Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth.
In prosperity let us most carefully avoid pride, disdain, and arrogance.
There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.
No well-informed person has declared a change of opinion to be inconstancy.
The world has not yet learned the riches of frugality.
Hatred is a settled anger.
We are not born, we do not live for ourselves alone; our country, our friends, have a share in us.
What one has, one ought to use: and whatever he does he should do with all his might.
This excessive licence, which the anarchists think is the only true freedom, provides the stock, as it were, from which a tyrant grows.
He who suffers, remembers.
There are gems of thought that are ageless and eternal.
Do not hold the delusion that your advancement is accomplished by crushing others.
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