Let wickedness escape as it may at the bar it never fails of doing justice upon itself for every guilty person is his own hangman.
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.
All the greatest blessings are a source of anxiety, and at no time should fortune be less trusted than when it is best; to maintain prosperity there is need of other prosperity, and in behalf of the p...
It's not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It's because we dare not venture that they are difficult.
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...
The sun shines even on the wicked.
Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
Envy of other people shows how they are unhappy. Their continual attention to others behavior shows how they are boring.
The part of life we really live is small.' For all the rest of existence is not life, but merely time.
Time heals what reason cannot.
Life will follow the path it started upon, and will neither reverse nor check its course; it will make no noise, it will not remind you of its swiftness. Silent it will glide on; it will not prolong i...
Our universe is a sorry little affair unless it has in it something for every age to investigate.
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.
Man is a social animal.
Speech is the index of the mind.
All cruelty springs from weakness.
Vice can be learnt even without a teacher.
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.
Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.
Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.
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