He, who decides a case without hearing the other side, though he decides justly, cannot be considered just.
Some there are that torment themselves afresh with the memory of what is past; others, again, afflict themselves with the apprehension of evils to come; and very ridiculously both - for the one does not now concern us, and the other not yet ... One should count each day as a separate life.
Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.
The person you are matters more than the place to which you go.
Life without the courage to die is slavery.
What were once vices are the fashion of the day.
There is nothing that we can properly call our own but our time, and yet everybody fools us out of it who has a mind to do it. If a man borrows a paltry sum of money, there must needs be bonds and securities, and every common civility is presently charged upon account. But he who has my time thinks he owes me nothing for it, though it be a debt that gratitude itself can never repay.
Nature does not bestow virtue; to be good is an art.
If virtue precede us every step will be safe.
There in no one more unfortunate than the man who has never been unfortunate. for it has never been in his power to try himself.
We are all sinful. Therefore whatever we blame in another we shall find in our own bosoms.
To see a man fearless in dangers, untainted with lusts, happy in adversity, composed in a tumult, and laughing at all those things which are generally either coveted or feared, all men must acknowledge that this can be from nothing else but a beam of divinity that influences a mortal body.
You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.
The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and pertubations; to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the present without any serious dependence on the future.
The most miserable mortals are they that deliver themselves up to their palates, or to their lusts; the pleasure is short, and turns presently nauseous, and the end of it is either shame or repentance.
Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness it is to be expecting evil before it comes.
No one can have all he desires.
Wisdom comes to no one by chance.
It is a proof of nobility of mind to despise injuries.
Obedience is yielded more readily to one who commands gently.
When you see a man in distress, recognize him as a fellow man.
You cease to be afraid when you cease to hope; for hope is accompanied by fear.
To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.
Nothing is ours except time.
It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence.
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