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The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.
No book can be so good, as to be profitable when negligently read.
Life's neither a good nor an evil: it's a field for good and evil.
The articulate, trained voice is more distracting than mere noise.
Nothing is void of God, his work is everywhere his full of himself.
The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.
We most often go astray on a well trodden and much frequented road.
Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.
Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
Let us bear with magnanimity whatever it is needful for us to bear.
If you wish another to keep your secret, first keep it to yourself.
Life is a play.It's not its length,but its performance that counts.
The mind does not easily unlearn what it has been long in learning.
Other men's sins are before our eyes; our own are behind our backs.
The soul has this proof of divinity: that divine things delight it.
In a moment the ashes are made, but a forest is a long time growing.
If you are surprised at the number of our maladies, count our cooks.
This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time.
Go on and increase in valor, O boy! this is the path to immortality.
The Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.
No work is of such merit as to instruct from a mere cursory perusal.
The willing, destiny guides them; the unwilling, destiny drags them.
It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.
Whatsoever has exceeded its proper limit is in an unstable position.
Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
Success gives the character of honesty to some classes of wickedness.
Let no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.
The tempest threatens before it comes; houses creak before they fall.
It is the fault of youth that it cannot restrain its own impetuosity.
The heart is great which shows moderation in the midst of prosperity.
Those that are a friend to themselves are sure to be a friend to all.
The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active employment.
That which has been endured with difficulty is remedied with delight.
If you don't know what port you are sailing to, no wind is favourable.
The wise man lives as long as he should, not just as long as he likes.
The greatest power of ruling consists in the exercise of self-control.
That is never too often repeated, which is never sufficiently learned.
Great men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.
It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence.
Bear in mind that you commit a crime by injuring even a wicked brother.
We are sure to get the better of fortune if we do but grapple with her.
Slavery holds few men fast; the greater number hold fast their slavery.
The Best sign of Wisdom is the consistency between the words and deeds.
So live with an inferior as you would wish a superior to live with you.
Away with the world's opinion of you-it's always unsettled and divided.
I shall never be ashamed to quote a bad author if what he says is good.
Accustom yourself to that which you bear ill, and you will bear it well.
It is not the man who has little, but he who desires more, that is poor.
He who seeks wisdom is a wise man; he who thinks he has found it is mad.