Rehearse death. To say this is to tell a person to rehearse his freedom. A person who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave. He is above, or at any rate, beyond the reach of, all political powers.
Whatever has overstepped its due bounds is always in a state of instability.
As many servants so many enemies.
Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment.
How much longer are you going to be a pupil? From now on do some teaching as well.
He who is penitent is almost innocent.
It is to the interest of the commonwealth of mankind that there should be someone who is unconquered, someone against whom fortune has no power.
A good character is the only guarantee of everlasting, carefree happiness.
Whatever one of us blames in another, each one will find in his own heart.
The man who has learned to triumph over sorrow wears his miseries as though they were sacred fillets upon his brow; and nothing is so entirely admirable as a man bravely wretched.
The wise man will always reflect concerning the quality not the quantity of life.
What a vile and abject thing is man if he do not raise himself above humanity.
Great men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.
Human nature is so constituted that insults sink deeper than kindnesses; the remembrance of the latter soon passes away, while that of the former is treasured in the memory.
It is often better not to see an insult than to avenge it.
You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
It is not goodness to be better than the worst.
Night brings our troubles to the light, rather than banishes them.
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 best ideas are common property.
Why will no man confess his faults? Because he continues to indulge in them; a man cannot tell his dream till he wakes.
Let not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp, be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition.
Humanity is fortunate, because no man is unhappy except by his own fault.
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.
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