Poverty is dishonorable, not in itself, but when it is a proof of laziness, intemperance, luxury, and carelessness; whereas in a person that is temperate, industrious, just and valiant, and who uses all his virtues for the public good, it shows a great and lofty mind.
The measure of a man's life is the well spending of it, and not the length.
To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.
It is a true proverb, that if you live with a lame man, you will learn to limp.
Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.
There are two sentences inscribed upon the Ancient oracle... "Know thyself" and "Nothing too much"; and upon these all other precepts depend.
God is the brave man's hope, and not the coward's excuse.
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.
It is the usual consolation of the envious, if they cannot maintain their superiority, to represent those by whom they are surpassed as inferior to some one else.
The omission of good is no less reprehensible than the commission of evil.
For the wise man, every day is a festival.
The richest soil, if uncultivated, produces the rankest weeds.
It was not important how many enemies there are, but where the enemy is
Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is adversity.
No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.
Our senses through ignorance of Reality, falsely tell us that what appears to be, is. FEAR = False Evidence Appearing Real
Anger turns the mind out of doors and bolts the entrance.
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.
Character is simply habit long continued.
Proper listening is the foundation of proper living.
Abstruse questions must have abstruse answers.
Silence is an answer to a wise man.
Reason speaks and feeling bites
Neither blame or praise yourself.
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