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It is a denial of justice not to stretch out a helping hand to the fallen that is the common right of humanity.
Unfamiliarity lends weight to misfortune, and there was never a man whose grief was not heightened by surprise.
If you are wise, You will mingle one thing with the other- Not hoping without doubt; Not doubting without hope.
The primary sign of a well-ordered mind is a man's ability to remain in one place and linger in his own company
The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.
Reason wishes that the judgement it gives be just; anger wishes that the judgement it has given seem to be just.
The things that are essential are acquired with little bother; it is the luxuries that call for toil and effort.
Nature does not turn out her work according to a single pattern; she prides herself upon her power of variation.
It's all in your headJ you have the power to make things seem hard or easy or even amusing. The choice is yours.
Hesitation is the best cure for anger. The first blows of anger are heavy, but if it waits, it will think again.
Before old age I took care to live well; in old age I take care to die well; but to die well is to die willingly.
Anger, though concealed, is betrayed by the countenance. ?That anger is not warrantable which hath seen two suns.
Those who pass their lives in foreign travel find they contract many ties of hospitality, but form no friendships.
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult
When God has once begun to throw down the prosperous, He overthrows them altogether: such is the end of the mighty.
Freedom can't be kept for nothing. If you set a high value on liberty, you must set a low value on everything else.
Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence. -Diligentia maximum etiam mediocris ingeni subsidium
When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy.
To be feared is to fear. No one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind.
Men trust their eyes rather than their ears; the road by precept is long and tedious, by example short and effectual.
He that by harshness of nature rules his family with an iron hand is as truly a tyrant as he who misgoverns a nation.
The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. It is more powerful than external circumstances.
If you live according to nature, you never will be poor; if according to the world's caprice, you will never be rich.
It’s in the very trickery that it pleases me. But show me how the trick is done, and I have lost my interest therein.
Who shrinks from knowledge of his calamities but aggravates his fear; troubles half seen, shall torture all the more.
Do you desire not to be angry? Be not inquisitive. He who inquires what is said of him only works out his own misery.
I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling
What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.
No man is born wise; but wisdom and virtue require a tutor; though we can easily learn to be vicious without a master.
Men can be divided into 2 groups: one that goes ahead and achieves something, and one that comes after and criticizes.
There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit
We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored.
If sensuality were happiness, beasts were happier than men; but human felicity is lodged in the soul, not in the flesh.
It is dishonorable to say one thing and think another; how much more dishonorable to write one thing and think another.
Why will no man confess his faults? Because he continues to indulge in them; a man cannot tell his dream till he wakes.
Virtue is that perfect good, which is the complement of a happy life; the only immortal thing that belongs to mortality.
Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness it is to be expecting evil before it comes.
The most imperious masters over their own servants are at the same time the most abject slaves to the servants of others.
Why does no one confess his sins? Because he is yet in them. It is for a man who has awoke from sleep to tell his dreams.
Let us ask what is best - not what is customary. Let us love temperance - let us be just - let us refrain from bloodshed.
Sadness usually results from one of the following causes either when a man does not succeed, or is ashamed of his success.
We are more easily led part by part to an understanding of the whole. -Facilius per partes in cognitionem totius adducimur
In whatever direction you turn, you will see God coming to meet you; nothing is void of him, he himself fills all his work.
If you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be angry but go insane.
Remember that pain has this most excellent quality. If prolonged it cannot be severe, and if severe it cannot be prolonged.
Epileptics know by signs when attacks are imminent and take precautions accordingly; we must do the same in regard to anger
It is a world of mischief that may be done by a single example of avarice or luxury. One voluptuous palate makes many more.
The mind is a matter over every kind of fortune; itself acts in both ways, being the cause of its own happiness and misery.
Epicurus says that you should rather have regard to the company with whom you eat and drink, than to what you eat and drink.
When one has lost a friend one's eyes should be neither dry nor streaming. Tears, yes, there should be, but not lamentation.