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When I think over what I have said, I envy dumb people.
Extreme remedies are never the first to be resorted to.
Live for thy neighbor if thou wouldst live for thyself.
Where silence is not allowed, what then is permissible?
He that does good to another does good also to himself.
Haste trips up its own heels, fetters and stops itself.
Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
The great pilot can sail even when his canvass is rent.
That which Fortune has not given, she cannot take away.
Remove severe restraint and what will become of virtue?
We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
Nothing is so contemptible as the sentiments of the mob.
Pleasure dies at the very moment when it charms us most.
Prudence will punish to prevent crime, not to avenge it.
Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things.
Nothing deters a good man from doing what is honourable.
The foremost art of Kings is the power to endure hatred.
A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.
Whoever has nothing to hope, let him despair of nothing.
Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
What is required is not a lot words, but effectual ones.
He is not guilty who is not guilty of his own free will.
The largest part of goodness is the will to become good.
Slavery takes hold of few, but many take hold of slavery.
No one should feel pride in anything that is not his own.
Not he who has little, but he whose wishes more, is poor.
My joy in learning is partly that it enables me to teach.
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.
There is no satisfaction in any good without a companion.
Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
Eyes will not see when the heart wishes them to be blind.
You cannot escape necessities, but you can overcome them.
The bounty of nature is too little for the greedy person.
Retirement without the love of letters is a living burial.
A benefit is estimated according to the mind of the giver.
We live not according to reason, but according to fashion.
There is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.
It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.
He who boasts of his descent, praises the deed of another.
Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.
You need a change of soul rather than a change of climate.
Fate rules the affairs of men, with no recognizable order.
There is nothing after death, and death itself is nothing.
It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth.
It is often better not to see an insult than to avenge it.
The mind that is anxious about future events is miserable.
Delay not; swift the flight of fortune's greatest favours.
We have been born under a monarchy; to obey God is freedom.