What need is there to weep over parts of life? The whole of it calls for tears.
It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth.
Night brings our troubles to the light rather than banishes them.
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
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...
Time heals what reason cannot.
Injustice never rules forever.
How silly then to imagine that the human mind, which is formed of the same elements as divine beings, objects to movement and change of abode, while the divine nature finds delight and even self-prese...
Men learn while they teach.
Learn how to feel joy.
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.
A good mind possesses a kingdom: a great fortune is a great slavery.
When I think over what I have said I envy dumb people.
No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
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...
Leisure without books is death, and burial of a man alive.
What a great blessing is a friend with a heart so trusty you may safely bury all your secrets in it.
Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for crisis.
Revenge is an inhuman word.
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