It is not the most distinguished achievements that men's virtues or vices may be best discovered; but very often an action of small note. An casual remark or joke shall distinguish a person's real character more than the greatest sieges, or the most important battles.
The superstitious man wishes he did not believe in gods, as the atheist does not, but fears to disbelieve in them.
Vultures are the most righteous of birds: they do not attack even the smallest living creature.
Friendship requires a steady, constant, and unchangeable character, a person that is uniform in his intimacy.
We ought not to treat living creatures like shoes or household belongings, which when worn with use we throw away.
He shall fare well who confronts circumstances aright.
Knowledge of divine things for the most part, as Heraclitus says, is lost to us by incredulity.
Note that the eating of flesh is not only physically against nature, but it also makes us spiritually coarse and gross by reason of satiety and surfeit.
When Anaxagoras was told of the death of his son, he only said, "I knew he was mortal." So we in all casualties of life should say "I knew my riches were uncertain, that my friend was but a man." Such considerations would soon pacify us, because all our troubles proceed from their being unexpected.
Our nature holds so much envy and malice that our pleasure in our own advantages is not so great as our distress at others'.
Character is inured habit.
Among real friends there is no rivalry or jealousy of one another, but they are satisfied and contented alike whether they are equal or one of them is superior.
He who cheats with an oath acknowledges that he is afraid of his enemy, but that he thinks little of God.
Evidence of trust begets trust, and love is reciprocated by love.
Men who marry wives very much superior to themselves are not so truly husbands to their wives as they are unawares made slaves to their position.
Lying is a most disgraceful vice; it first despises God, and then fears men.
There is no stronger test of a person's character than power and authority, exciting as they do every passion, and discovering every latent vice.
He is a fool who lets slip a bird in the hand for a bird in the bush.
The flatterer's object is to please in everything he does; whereas the true friend always does what is right, and so often gives pleasure, often pain, not wishing the latter, but not shunning it either, if he deems it best.
I see the cure is not worth the pain.
Time which diminishes all things increases understanding for the aging.
It is not reasonable that he who does not shoot should hit the mark, nor that he who does not stand fast at his post should win the day, or that the helpless man should succeed or the coward prosper.
Beauty is the flower of virtue.
Apothegms are the most infallible mirror to represent a man truly what he is.
Philosophy is the art of living.
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