The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.
True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.
It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.
Genius always gives its best at first prudence, at last.
No man was ever wise by chance.
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.
Anger: an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.
We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we loo...
Time discovers truth.
Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.
Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune all these are names of the one and selfsame God.
There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle...
I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappe...
Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.
It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.