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Whereas a prolonged life is not necessarily better, a prolonged death is necessarily worse.
Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
Dangerous is wrath concealed. Hatred proclaimed doth lose its chance of wreaking vengeance.
A benefit consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
It is the practice of the multitude to bark at eminent men, as little dogs do at strangers.
Death falls heavily on that man who, known too well to others, dies in ignorance of himself.
Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature.
It is a tedious thing to be always beginning life; they live badly who always begin to live.
Many person might have achieved wisdom had they not supposed that they already possessed it.
Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today.
Let him who has granted a favour speak not of it; let him who has received one, proclaim it.
The greatest hindrance to living is expectancy, which depends upon tomorrow and wastes today
Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.
There is nothing which persevering effort and unceasing and diligent care cannot accomplish.
That which we are not permitted to have we delight in; that which we can have is disregarded.
Concealed anger is to be feared; but hatred openly manifested destroys its chance of revenge.
Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.
It is difficult to bring people to goodness with lessons, but it is easy to do so by example.
One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.
If thou wishest to get rid of thy evil propensities, thou must keep far from evil companions.
Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.
He invites the commission of a crime who does not forbid it, when it is in his power to do so.
May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.
Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.
It is expedient for the victor to wish for peace restored; for the vanquished it is necessary.
What nature requires is obtainable, and within easy reach. It is for the superfluous we sweat.
There are a few men whom slavery holds fast, but there are many more who hold fast to slavery.
Whatever is to make us better and happy God has placed either openly before us or close to us.
Refuse to let the thought of death bother you: nothing is grim when we have escaped that fear.
Wisdom teaches us to do, as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a colour.
When thou hast profited so much that thou respectest even thyself, thou mayst let go thy tutor.
It's the great soul that surrenders itself to fate, but a puny degenerate thing that struggles.
You find in some a sort of graceless modesty, that makes them ashamed to requite an obligation.
It is sweet to mingle tears with tears; Griefs, where they wound in solitude, Wound more deeply.
There is nothing the busy man is less busied with than living; there is nothing harder to learn.
Death: There's nothing bad about it at all except the thing that comes before it-the fear of it.
He shows a greater mind who does not restrain his laughter, than he who does not deny his tears.
It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.
It is the constant fault and inseparable evil quality of ambition, that it never looks behind it.
The proper amount of wealth is that which neither descends to poverty nor is far distant from it.
A good person dyes events with his own color . . . and turns whatever happens to his own benefit.
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.
The best way to do good to ourselves is to do it to others; the right way to gather is to scatter.
A man can refrain from wanting what he has not and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand.
What difference does it make, after all, what your position in life is if you dislike it yourself?
Choose as a guide one whom you will admire more when you see him act than when you hear him speak.
There is no evil that does not offer inducements. Vices tempt you by the rewards which they offer.
These individulas have riches just as we say that we 'have a fever,' when really the fever has us.
Tranqility is a certain quality of mind, which no condition or fortune can either exalt or depress.
Tota vita nihil aliud quam ad mortem iter est. The whole of life is nothing but a journey to death.