Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.
It is not how many books thou hast, but how good; careful reading profiteth, while that which is full of variety delighteth.
People pay the doctor for his trouble; for his kindness they still remain in his debt.
Adversity finds at last the man whom she has often passed by.
It's unknown the place and uncertain the time where death awaits you; thus you must expect death to find you, every time, at every place.
Hesitation is the best cure for anger. The first blows of anger are heavy, but if it waits, it will think again.
Look at the stars lighting up the sky: no one of them stays in the same place.
The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
I was shipwrecked before I got aboard.
I am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use: my mind needs unpacking and the truths stored within must be turned over from time to time, to be ready when occasion demands.
You will die not because you're ill, but because you're alive.
Abstinence is easier than temperance.
There is nothing which persevering effort and unceasing and diligent care cannot accomplish.
Forgive that you may be forgiven.
True wisdom consists in not departing from nature and in molding our conduct according to her laws and model.
An unpopular rule is never long maintained.
The philosopher: he alone knows how to live for himself. He is the one, in fact, who knows the fundamental thing: how to live.
If you would judge, understand.
Watch over yourself. Be your own accuser, then your judge; ask yourself grace sometimes, and, if there is need, impose upon yourself some pain.
Nihil tam acerbum est in quo non æquus animus solatium inveniat. There is nothing so disagreeable, that a patient mind can not find some solace for it.
We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
Throughout the whole of life one must continue to learn to live and what will amaze you even more, throughout life you must learn to die. Seneca (Roman philosopher)
Remember, not one penny can we take with us into the unknown land.
Reasons for anxiety will never be lacking, whether born of prosperity or of wretchedness; life pushes on in a succession of engrossments. We shall always pray for leisure.
Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.
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