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Leisure without study is death, and the grave of a living man.
The poor are not the people with less, which is less desirable
The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
The man who thinks only of his own generation is born for few.
The entire world would perish, if pity were not to limit anger.
He who would do great things should not attempt them all alone.
Power exercised with violence has seldom been of long duration.
The worst thing about getting old is evil men cease to fear you
He deserves praise who does not what he may, but what he ought.
It is never too late to learn what is always necessary to know.
The person you are matters more than the place to which you go.
A friend always loves, but he who loves is not always a friend.
He, who will not pardon others, must not himself expect pardon.
Religion worships God, while superstition profanes that worship.
Nothing is so bitter that a calm mind cannot find comfort in it.
It is a youthful failing to be unable to control one's impulses.
Straightforwardness and simplicity are in keeping with goodness.
Auditur et altera pars. (The other side shall be heard as well.)
Levity of behavior is the bane of all that is good and virtuous.
The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it
If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
The great thing is to know when to speak and when to keep quiet.
Genius has never been accepted without a measure of condonement.
Our (the Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature.
There is no fair wind for one who knows not whither he is bound.
Drunkenness does not create vice; it merely brings it into view.
Nature has given us the seeds of knowledge, not knowledge itself.
Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other.
The first step in a person's salvation is knowledge of their sin.
Drunkenness doesn't create vices, but it brings them to the fore.
How much does great prosperity overspread the mind with darkness.
Never to wrong others takes one a long way towards peace of mind.
I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.
The path of precept is long, that of example short and effectual.
I am not born from a single place. My country is the whole world.
There has never been any great genius without a spice of madness.
If you will fear nothing, think that all things are to be feared.
Time is the one thing that is given to everyone in equal measure.
He is a king who fears nothing, he is a king who desires nothing!
They who have light in themselves will not revolve as satellites.
Our posterity will wonder about our ignorance of things so plain.
The physician cannot prescribe by letter, he must feel the pulse.
Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.
Remember, not one penny can we take with us into the unknown land.
Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all.
The mind makes the nobleman, and uplifts the lowly to high degree.
Night brings our troubles to the light, rather than banishes them.
Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough.
No one's so old that he mayn't with decency hope for one more day.
No one can hold absolute power for long, controlled power endures.