Virtue is its own reward.
Hatreds not vowed and concealed are to be feared more than those openly declared.
There is no duty more obligatory than the repayment of kindness.
To live long, live slowly.
Too much liberty leads both men and nations to slavery.
The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.
To err is human, but to persevere in error is only the act of a fool.
Every evil in the bud is easily crushed: as it grows older, it becomes stronger.
It is as hard for the good to suspect evil, as it is for the bad to suspect good.
If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
I hear Socrates saying that the best seasoning for food is hunger; for drink, thirst.
All places are filled with fools. [Lat., Stultorum plenea sunt omnia.]
Wisdom is the only thing which can relieve us from the sway of the passions and the fear of danger, and which can teach us to bear the injuries of fortune itself with moderation, and which shows us all the ways which lead to tranquility and peace.
O wretched man, wretched not just because of what you are, but also because you do not know how wretched you are!
Men decide far more problems by hate, love, lust, rage, sorrow, joy, hope, fear, illusion or some other inward emotion, than by reality, authority, any legal standard, judicial precedent, or statute.
It is the character of a brave and resolute man not to be ruffled by adversity and not to desert his post.
Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.
If anyone cannot feel the power of God when he looks upon the stars, then I doubt whether he is capable of feeling at all. From the enduring wonder of the heavens flows all grace and power. If anyone thinks it is mindless then he himself must be out of his mind.
Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.
I remember the very thing that I do not wish to; I cannot forget the things I wish to forget.
We were born to unite with our fellow men, and to join in community with the human race.
Long life is denied us; therefore let us do something to show that we have lived.
What is permissible is not always honorable.
It is a man's own dishonesty, his crimes, his wickedness, and boldness, that takes away from him soundness of mind; these are the furies, these the flames and firebrands, of the wicked.
If our lives are endangered by plots or violence or armed robbers or enemies, any and every method of protecting ourselves is morally right.
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