You cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time.
Man is a reasoning Animal.
Light cares speak, great ones are speechless. -Curae leves loquuntur ingentes stupent
There is nothing after death, and death itself is nothing.
Apples taste sweetest when they're going.
It is bad to live for necessity; but there is no necessity to live in necessity.
A thing seriously pursued affords true enjoyment.
No choice maxims - we Stoics don't practice that kind of window dressing.
The greater part of progress is the desire to progress.
Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.
Men trust their eyes rather than their ears; the road by precept is long and tedious, by example short and effectual.
The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. It is more powerful than external circumstances.
Drunkenness is simply voluntary insanity.
The friends of the unfortunate live a long way off.
There's no delight in owning anything unshared.
A thousand approaches lie open to death.
He that makes himself famous by his eloquence, justice or arms illustrates his extraction, let it be never so mean; and gives inestimable reputation to his parents. We should never have heard of Sophroniscus, but for his son, Socrates; nor of Ariosto and Gryllus, if it had not been for Xenophon and Plato.
Plato once wanted to punish one of his slaves and asked his nephew to do the actual whipping for he himself did not own his anger.
That day which you fear as being the end of all things is the birthday of your eternity.
Brother, the Great Spirit has made us all. . . . .
He who begs timidly courts a refusal.
Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.
We deliberate about the parcels of life, but not about life itself, and so we arrive all unawares at its different epochs, and have the trouble of beginning all again. And so finally it is that we do not walk as men confidently towards death, but let death come suddenly upon us.
Life without literary studies is death.
The ascent from earth to heaven is not easy.
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