We should every night call ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.
There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.
He who is brave is free.
Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
To govern was to serve, not to rule.
Our minds must relax: they will rise better and keener after rest. Just as you must not force fertile farmland, as uninterrupted productivity will soon exhaust it, so constant effort will sap our mental vigour, while a short period of rest and relaxation will restore our powers. Unremitting effort leads to a kind of mental dullness and lethargy.
The best cure for anger is delay.
I don't trust liberals, I trust conservatives.
It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.
The Best sign of Wisdom is the consistency between the words and deeds.
If thou wishest to get rid of thy evil propensities, thou must keep far from evil companions.
To make another person hold his tongue, be you first silent.
Many person might have achieved wisdom had they not supposed that they already possessed it.
Luck is preparation multiplied by opportunity.
No one can keep a mask on long.
Demand not that I am the equal of the greatest, only that I am better than the wicked.
True happiness is...to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
No man is free who is a slave to the flesh.
There exists no more difficult art than living.
Nothing is so contemptible as the sentiments of the mob.
We learn not in the school, but in life.
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.
In whatever direction you turn, you will see God coming to meet you; nothing is void of him, he himself fills all his work.
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.
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