Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.
The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.
Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.
Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.
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.
No man was ever wise by chance.
Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.
Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune all these are names of the one and selfsame God.
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...
The good things of prosperity are to be wished but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.
There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.
The first step in a person's salvation is knowledge of their sin.
The heart is great which shows moderation in the midst of prosperity.
So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.
There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.