The final hour when we cease to exist does not itself bring death; it merely of itself completes the death-process. We reach death at that moment, but we have been a long time on the way.
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.
Vice can be learnt even without a teacher.
Time discovered truth.
Revenge is an inhuman word.
He who decides a case without hearing the other side though he decide justly cannot be considered just.
The foremost art of kings is the power to endure hatred.
Fate rules the affairs of mankind with no recognizable order.
True happiness is to understand our duties toward God and man to enjoy the present without anxious dependence on the future not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied...
What a great blessing is a friend with a heart so trusty you may safely bury all your secrets in it.
Pain is slight if opinion has added nothing to it; ... in thinking it slight, you will make it slight. Everything depends on opinion. It is according to opinion that we suffer. A man is as wretched as...
When you enter a grove peopled with ancient trees, higher than the ordinary, and shutting out the sky with their thickly inter-twined branches, do not the stately shadows of the wood, the stillness of...
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...
Friendship always benefits love sometimes injures.
The sun also shines on the wicked.
Whatever is well said by another is mine.
They laboriously do nothing.
Men learn while they teach.
Injustice never rules forever.