The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinqui...
A hungry people listens not to reason nor cares for justice nor is bent by any prayers.
The first petition that we are to make to Almighty God is for a good conscience the next for health of mind and then of body.
And so when you see a man often wearing the robe of office, when you see one whose name is famous in the Forum, do not envy him; those things are bought at the price of life. They will waste all their...
The sun shines even on the wicked.
Nature does not reveal her mysteries once and for all.
Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so I shall choose my death when I am about to depart from life.
It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
All cruelty springs from weakness.
Non est ad astra mollis e terris via" - "There is no easy way from the earth to the stars
It is not that we have a short space of time, but that we waste much of it. Life is long enough, and it has been given in sufficiently generous measure to allow the accomplishment of the very greatest...
It takes the whole of life to learn how to live, and--what will perhaps make you wonder more--it takes the whole of life to learn how to die.
Man is a social animal.
They laboriously do nothing.
True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for...
If you would wish another to keep your secret first keep it yourself.
Friendship always benefits love sometimes injures.
You are unfortunate in my judgment, for you have never been unfortunate. You have passed through life with no antagonist to face you; no one will know what you were capable of, not even you yourself.
He who decides a case without hearing the other side though he decide justly cannot be considered just.
Whatever is well said by another is mine.
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