Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and to take as a gift whatever the day brings forth. [Lat., Quid sit futurum cras, fuge quaerere: et Quem Fors dierum cunque dabit, lucro Appone.]
Years, following years, steal something every day; At last they steal us from ourselves away.
It is hard! But what can not be removed, becomes lighter through patience.
Don't yield to that alluring witch, laziness, or else be prepared to surrender all that you have won in your better moments.
If things look badly to-day they may look better tomorrow.
Nature is harmony in discord.
Take subject matter equal to your powers, and ponder long, what your shoulders cannot bear, and what they can.
He appears mad indeed but to a few, because the majority is infected with the same disease.
We are more speedily and fatally corrupted by domestic examples of vice, and particularly when they are impressed on our minds as from authority.
Doctrina sed vim promovet insitam. Instruction enlarges the natural powers of the mind.
Don't long for the unripe grape.
Remember to preserve a calm soul amid difficulties.
Whatever things injure your eye you are anxious to remove; but things which affect your mind you defer.
Virtue consists in avoiding vice, and is the highest wisdom. [Lat., Virtus est vitium fugere, et sapientia prima.]
Choose a subject equal to your abilities; think carefully what your shoulders may refuse, and what they are capable of bearing.
Gold loves to make its way through guards, and breaks through barriers of stone more easily than the lightning's bolt.
Work at it night and day.
Pleasure bought with pain does harm.
In going abroad we change the climate not our dispositions.
Capture your reader, let him not depart, from dull beginnings that refuse to start
I hate the irreverent rabble and keep them far from me.
Remember when life's path is steep to keep your mind even.
One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions.
Nothing is swifter than rumor.
Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own: he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today. Be fair or foul or rain or shine, the joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine. Not Heaven itself upon the past has power, but what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.
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