Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
It is not death that a man should fear he should fear never beginning to live.
Love only what befalls you and is spun for you by fate.
Do every act of your life as if it were your last.
Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.
Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.
Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as often as it is practicable and to make this custom the more significant, practice it first...
A man's worth is no greater than the worth of his ambitions.
Be content with what you are, and wish not change nor dread your last day, nor long for it.
I do not regard a man as poor, if the little which remains is enough for him.
Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as often as it is practicable; and to make this custom the more significant, practice it firs...
What pulls the strings is the force hidden within there lies ... the real man.
A man's happiness: to do the things proper to man.
Death smiles at us all, all a man can do is smile back.
Look well into thyself there is a source which will always spring up if thou wilt always search there.
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
Try to live the life of the good man who is more than content with what is allocated to him.
Here is a rule to remember when anything tempts you to feel bitter: not "This is a misfortune " but "To bear this worthily is good fortune."
You should always be ready to apply these two rules of action, the first, to do nothing other than what the kingly and law-making art ordains for the benefits of humankind, and, the second, to be prep...