Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.
Fire proves gold, adversity proves men.
Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.
To be feared is to fear. No one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind.
If you wish another to keep your secret, first keep it to yourself.
Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
No one can long hide behind a mask; the pretense soon lapses into the true character.
It is never too late to turn from the errors of our ways: He who repents of his sins is almost innocent.
A man who has taken your time recognises no debt; yet it is the one he can never repay.
Everyone rushes his life on, and suffers from a yearning for the future and a boredom with the present. But that man who devotes every hour to his own needs, who plans every day as if it were his last, neither longs for nor fears tomorrow.
Let us say what we feel, and feel what we say; let speech harmonize with life.
As the mother's womb holds us for ten months, making us ready, not for the womb itself, but for life, just so, through our lives, we are making ourselves ready for another birth...Therefore look forward without fear to that appointed hour- the last hour of the body, but not of the soul...That day, which you fear as being the end of all things, is the birthday of your eternity.
The rust of the mind is the destruction of genius.
A man is as unhappy as he has convinced himself he is.
It is never too late to learn what is always necessary to know.
Associate with people who are likely to improve you.
As was his language so was his life.
The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution; who resists to sorest temptation from within and without; who bears the heaviest burdens cheerfully; who is calmest in storms, and most fearless under menaces and frowns; whose reliance on truth, on virtue, and on God is most unfaltering.
When you die, it will not be because you are sick, but because you were alive.
Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
If you live according to nature, you never will be poor; if according to the world's caprice, you will never be rich.
What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law.
No one can lead a happy life, or even one that is bearable, without the pursuit of wisdom, and that the perfection of wisdom is what makes the happy life, although even the beginnings of wisdom make life bearable. Yet this conviction, clear as it is, needs to be strengthened and given deeper roots through daily reflection; making noble resolutions is not a important as keeping the resolutions you have made already.
A consciousness of wrongdoing is the first step to salvation...you have to catch yourself doing it before you can correct it.
If wisdom were offered me with this restriction, that I should keep it close and not communicate it, I would refuse the gift.
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