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.
For the wise man, every day is a festival.
Neither blame or praise yourself.
The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.
God is the brave man's hope, and not the coward's excuse.
It is a true proverb, that if you live with a lame man, you will learn to limp.
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 poor go to war, to fight and die for the delights, riches, and superfluities of others.
If you hate your enemies, you will contract such a vicious habit of mind that it will break out upon those who are your friends, or those who are indifferent to you.
No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.
Learn to be pleased with everything...because it could always be worse, but isn't!
Character is simply habit long continued.
To please the many is to displease the wise.
Proper listening is the foundation of proper living.
It was not important how many enemies there are, but where the enemy is
Reason speaks and feeling bites
Instead of using medicine, better fast today.
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.
Of all the disorders in the soul, envy is the only one no one confesses to.
Knavery is the best defense against a knave.
Silence is an answer to a wise man.
For the mind does not require filling like a bottle, but rather, like wood, it only requires kindling to create in it an impulse to think independently and an ardent desire for the truth.
The omission of good is no less reprehensible than the commission of evil.
Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.
Vos vestros servate, meos mihi linquite mores You keep to your own ways, and leave mine to me
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