No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
Night brings our troubles to the light rather than banishes them.
What need is there to weep over parts of life? The whole of it calls for tears.
f you wish to put off all worry, assume that what you fear may happen is certainly going to happen.
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
Love of bustle is not industry.
Man is a social animal.
Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.
Time heals what reason cannot.
It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth.
Love sometimes injures. Friendship always benefits
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.
Leisure without books is death, and burial of a man alive.
A good mind possesses a kingdom: a great fortune is a great slavery.
Fire tries gold misery tries brave men.
Learn how to feel joy.
When I think over what I have said I envy dumb people.
How closely flattery resembles friendship! It not only apes friendship, but outdoes it, passing it in the race; with wide-open and indulgent ears it is welcomed and sinks to the depths of the heart, a...
It's not that we have little time, but more that we waste a good deal of it.
An age builds up cities: an hour destroys them.