What view is one likely to take of the state of a person's mind when his speech is wild and incoherent and knows no constraint?
Tranqility is a certain quality of mind, which no condition or fortune can either exalt or depress.
Persistent kindness conquers the ill-disposed.
Nature has given us the seeds of knowledge, not knowledge itself.
A great, a good, and a right mind is a kind of divinity lodged in flesh, and may be the blessing of a slave as well as of a prince: it came from heaven, and to heaven it must return; and it is a kind of heavenly felicity, which a pure and virtuous mind enjoys, in some degree, even upon earth.
The mind, unless it is pure and holy, cannot see God.
The final hour when we cease to exist does not itself bring death; it merely of itself completes the death-process. We reach death at that moment, but we have been a long time on the way.
No one is laughable who laughs at himself.
Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other; yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely; for science is but one.
He who boasts of his pedigree praises that which does not belong to him.
Let us cherish and love old age; for it is full of pleasure, if you know how to use it. The best morsel is reserved for last.
A well-governed appetite is a great part of liberty
Everything may happen.
The foremost art of Kings is the power to endure hatred.
The man who while he gives thinks of what he will get in return, deserves to be deceived.
There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
Men love their vices and hate them at the same time.
Refrain from following the example of those whose craving is for attention, not their own improvement.
We live not according to reason, but according to fashion.
Luck never made a man wise.
Do everything as in the eye of another.
It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness. As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.
We are sure to get the better of fortune if we do but grapple with her.
While we wait for life, life passes
A coward calls himself cautious, a miser thrifty.
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