Meditation is a powerful and full study as can effectually taste and employ themselves.
Not being able to govern events I govern myself.
Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health.
Though the ancient poet in Plutarch tells us we must not trouble the gods with our affairs because they take no heed of our angers and disputes, we can never enough decry the disorderly sallies of our...
آدمی از هیجانات سوزان، ناگزیر به تب های سوزان می جهد
Other people do not see you at all, but guess at you by uncertain conjectures.
It is not reasonable that art should win the place of honor over our great and powerful mother Nature. We have so overloaded the beauty and richness of her works by our inventions that we have quite s...
I had rather complain of ill-fortune than be ashamed of victory.
The word is half his that speaks and half his that hears it.
We are all of us richer than we think we are.
Greatness of soul consists not so much in soaring high and in pressing forward as in knowing how to adapt and limit oneself.
There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.
To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind for it.
The customs and practices of life in society sweep us along.
Let us give Nature a chance; she knows her business better than we do.
I listen with attention to the judgment of all men;
Can anything be imagined so ridiculous, that this miserable and wretched creature [man], who is not so much as master of himself, but subject to the injuries of all things, should call himself master...
Between ourselves, there are two things that I have always observed to be in singular accord: supercelestial thoughts and subterranean conduct.
All we do is to look after the opinions and learning of others: we ought to make them our own.
It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.