Do the best you can . . . enjoy the present . . . rest satisfied with what you have.
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.
Human affairs are like a chess-game: only those who do not take it seriously can be called good players. Life is like an earthen pot: only when it is shattered, does it manifest its emptiness.
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.
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.
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.
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.
There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.
If wisdom were offered me with this restriction, that I should keep it close and not communicate it, I would refuse the gift.
Luck never made a man wise.
Do everything as in the eye of another.
We are sure to get the better of fortune if we do but grapple with her.
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.
While we wait for life, life passes
There is no evil that does not promise inducements. Avarice promises money; luxury, a varied assortment of pleasures; ambition, a purple robe and applause. Vices tempt you by the rewards they offer.
I am telling you to be a slow-speaking person.
But when you are looking on anyone as a friend when you do not trust him as you trust yourself, you are making a grave mistake, and have failed to grasp sufficiently the full force of true friendship.
Nothing, to my way of thinking, is a better proof of a well-ordered mind than a man's ability to stop just where he is and pass some time in his own company.
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