No one should feel pride in anything that is not his own.
The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.
No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
This is the reason we cannot complain of life: it keeps no one against his will.
Everything in art is but a copy of nature.
Drunkenness is nothing but a self-induced state of insanity.
Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.
Life is never incomplete if it is an honorable one. At whatever point you leave life, if you leave it in the right way, it is whole.
Truth will never be tedious unto him that travelleth in the secrets of nature; there is nothing but falsehood that glutteth us.
Nature does not turn out her work according to a single pattern; she prides herself upon her power of variation.
The world itself is too small for the covetous.
It is difficult to bring people to goodness with lessons, but it is easy to do so by example.
What is required is not a lot words, but effectual ones.
He invites the commission of a crime who does not forbid it, when it is in his power to do so.
Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature.
Concealed anger is to be feared; but hatred openly manifested destroys its chance of revenge.
What once were vices are manners now.
The fortune of war is always doubtful.
Our words should aim not to please, but to help.
He, who holds out but a doubtful hope of succour to the afflicted, denies it.
There is no evil that does not offer inducements. Vices tempt you by the rewards which they offer.
Just where death is expecting you is something we cannot know; so, for your part, expect him everywhere.
Finally, everybody agrees that no one pursuit can be successfully followed by a man who is preoccupied with many things-eloquence cannot, nor the liberal studies-since the mind, when distracted, takes in nothing very deeply, but rejects everything that is, as it were, crammed into it. There is nothing the busy man is less busied with than living: there is nothing that is harder to learn.
Not he who has little, but he whose wishes more, is poor.
Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit.
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