Remember to act always as if you were at a symposium. When the food or drink comes around, reach out and take some politely; if it passes you by don't try pulling it back. And if it has not reached yo...
An ignorant person is inclined to blame others for his own misfortune. To blame oneself is proof of progress. But the wise man never has to blame another or himself.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
All religions must be tolerated... for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.
If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach towa...
Here are thieves and robbers and tribunals: and they that are called tyrants, who deem that they have after a fashion power over us, because of the miserable body and what appertains to it. Let us sho...
We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.
Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
No great thing is created suddenly.
Why are you pestering me, pal? My own evils are enough for me.
Practice yourself for heaven's sake in little things and thence proceed to greater.
To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is co...
It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.
Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.
The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.
Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
Do you know that disease and death must needs overtake us no matter what we are doing? ... What do you wish to be doing when it overtakes you? If you have anything better to be doing when you are so...
It is no easy thing for a principle to become a man's own unless each day he maintains it and works it out in his life.
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.