The largest part of goodness is the will to become good.
That which we are not permitted to have we delight in; that which we can have is disregarded.
Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.
The greatest wealth is a poverty of desires.
The best ideas are common property.
I know that nothing comes to pass but what God appoints; our fate is decreed, and things do not happen by chance, but every man's portion of joy and sorrow is predetermined.
Let not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp, be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition.
Why will no man confess his faults? Because he continues to indulge in them; a man cannot tell his dream till he wakes.
The sun shines even on the wicked.
Epileptics know by signs when attacks are imminent and take precautions accordingly; we must do the same in regard to anger
Now we are not merely to stick knowledge on to the soul: we must incorporate it into her; the soul should not be sprinkled with knowledge but steeped in it.
Humanity is fortunate, because no man is unhappy except by his own fault.
Misfortune is the test of a person's merit.
Life is a gift of the immortal Gods, but living well is the gift of philosophy.
Unblest is he who thinks himself unblest.
He that does good to another does good also to himself, not only in the consequence but in the very act. For the consciousness of well-doing is in itself ample reward.
What-so-ever the mind has ordained for itself, it has achieved
Tranqility is a certain quality of mind, which no condition or fortune can either exalt or depress.
Delay not; swift the flight of fortune's greatest favours.
Nothing is so bitter that a calm mind cannot find comfort in it.
A great, a good, and a right mind is a kind of divinity lodged in flesh, and may be the blessing of a slave as well as of a prince: it came from heaven, and to heaven it must return; and it is a kind of heavenly felicity, which a pure and virtuous mind enjoys, in some degree, even upon earth.
What view is one likely to take of the state of a person's mind when his speech is wild and incoherent and knows no constraint?
Nature has given us the seeds of knowledge, not knowledge itself.
Persistent kindness conquers the ill-disposed.
The mind, unless it is pure and holy, cannot see God.
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