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.
Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it.
No great thing is created suddenly.
Why are you pestering me, pal? My own evils are enough for me.
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.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
No man is free who is not master of himself.
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...
If you wish to be a writer, write.
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...
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...
All religions must be tolerated... for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.
If you would be a reader read if a writer write.
Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
Freedom is the right to live as we wish.
Ruin and recovery are both from within.
Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.
Practice yourself for heaven's sake in little things and thence proceed to greater.