It is within the power of every man to live his life nobly, but of no man to live forever. Yet so many of us hope that life will go on forever, and so few aspire to live nobly.
The heart is great which shows moderation in the midst of prosperity.
Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man's power to live long.
Life is a gift of the immortal Gods, but living well is the gift of philosophy.
In whatever direction you turn, you will see God coming to meet you; nothing is void of him, he himself fills all his work.
Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.
Away with the world's opinion of you-it's always unsettled and divided.
He, who decides a case without hearing the other side, though he decides justly, cannot be considered just.
A man who examines the saddle and bridle and not the animal itself when he is out to buy a horse is a fool; similarly, only an absolute fool values a man according to his clothes, or according to his position, which after all is only something we wear like clothing.
The person you are matters more than the place to which you go.
To forgive all is as inhuman as to forgive none
If you live according to nature, you never will be poor; if according to the world's caprice, you will never be rich.
Life without the courage to die is slavery.
What were once vices are the fashion of the day.
There is nothing that we can properly call our own but our time, and yet everybody fools us out of it who has a mind to do it. If a man borrows a paltry sum of money, there must needs be bonds and securities, and every common civility is presently charged upon account. But he who has my time thinks he owes me nothing for it, though it be a debt that gratitude itself can never repay.
To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.-
Some there are that torment themselves afresh with the memory of what is past; others, again, afflict themselves with the apprehension of evils to come; and very ridiculously both - for the one does not now concern us, and the other not yet ... One should count each day as a separate life.
If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favourable.
There in no one more unfortunate than the man who has never been unfortunate. for it has never been in his power to try himself.
To see a man fearless in dangers, untainted with lusts, happy in adversity, composed in a tumult, and laughing at all those things which are generally either coveted or feared, all men must acknowledge that this can be from nothing else but a beam of divinity that influences a mortal body.
You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.
The most miserable mortals are they that deliver themselves up to their palates, or to their lusts; the pleasure is short, and turns presently nauseous, and the end of it is either shame or repentance.
When you see a man in distress, recognize him as a fellow man.
The best way to do good to ourselves is to do it to others; the right way to gather is to scatter.
The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and pertubations; to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the present without any serious dependence on the future.
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