Anger: an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.
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...
A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient,...
Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk and to make our words and actions all of a color.
It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.
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.
Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely for science is...
A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.
As long as you live, keep learning how to live.
It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and to prefer things in measure to things in excess.
He that does good to another does good also to himself.
Nothing is void of God, his work is everywhere his full of himself.
Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all.
A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
A great fortune is a great slavery.
Why do I not seek some real good one which I could feel, not one which I could display?
When we are well, we all have good advice for those who are ill.
Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself no man to be great or powerful that is not master o...
It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, - superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare, that force us to grow old in camp, that dash us upon foreign shores.