Fate leads him who follows it, and drags him who resist.
Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is adversity.
When Demaratus was asked whether he held his tongue because he was a fool or for want of words, he replied, "A fool cannot hold his tongue.
Philosophy finds talkativeness a disease very difficult and hard to cure. For its remedy, conversation, requires hearers: but talkative people hear nobody, for they are ever prating. And the first evil this inability to keep silence produces is an inability to listen.
A fool cannot hold his tongue.
Pythagoras, when he was asked what time was, answered that it was the soul of this world.
Nature and wisdom never are at strife.
Poverty is dishonorable, not in itself, but when it is a proof of laziness, intemperance, luxury, and carelessness; whereas in a person that is temperate, industrious, just and valiant, and who uses all his virtues for the public good, it shows a great and lofty mind.
We are more sensible of what is done against custom than against nature.
Water and our necessary food are the only things that wise men must fight for.
The measure of a man's life is the well spending of it, and not the length.
The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.
Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.
A healer of others, himself diseased.
Vos vestros servate, meos mihi linquite mores You keep to your own ways, and leave mine to me
Remember what Simonides said, that he never repented that he had held his tongue, but often that he had spoken.
It is no disgrace not to be able to do everything; but to undertake, or pretend to do, what you are not made for, is not only shameful, but extremely troublesome and vexatious.
Nothing can produce so great a serenity of life as a mind free from guilt and kept untainted, not only from actions, but purposes that are wicked. By this means the soul will be not only unpolluted but also undisturbed. The fountain will run clear and unsullied.
A Roman divorced from his wife, being highly blamed by his friends, who demanded, "Was she not chaste? Was she not fair? Was she not fruitful?" holding out his shoe, asked them whether it was not new and well made. "Yet," added he, "none of you can tell where it pinches me.''
The superstitious man wishes he did not believe in gods, as the atheist does not, but fears to disbelieve in them.
The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.
The state of life is most happy where superfluities are not required and necessities are not wanting.
Abstruse questions must have abstruse answers.
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.
It is the usual consolation of the envious, if they cannot maintain their superiority, to represent those by whom they are surpassed as inferior to some one else.
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