Adversity shows whether we have friends, or only the shadows of friends.
To spare the guilty is to injure the innocent.
It matters not what you are thought to be, but what you are.
Every question does not deserve an answer.
Observation, not old age, brings wisdom.
It is of no profit to have learned well, if you neglect to do well.
A wise man will be master of his mind, a fool will be its slave.
It is a fraud to borrow what we are unable to pay.
You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.
From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.
I often regret that I have spoken; never that I have been silent.
He who lives only for himself is truly dead to others.
There is no fruit which is not bitter before it is ripe.
A tongue prone to slander is the proof of a depraved mind.
Yesterday should be the teacher of today.
Equanimity is calamity's medicine.
Patience is the remedy for every misfortune.
The pain of the mind is worse than the pain of the body.
The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
Practice is the best of all instructors.
Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.
He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
Would you have a great empire? Rule over yourself.
The sweetest pleasure arises from difficulties overcome.
The circumstances of others seem good to us, while ours seem good to others.
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