Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be.
Horus non numero nisi serenas (I count only the sunny hours).
Anyone is to be pitied who has just sense enough to perceive his deficiencies.
Prosperity is a great teacher adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind privation trains and strengthens it.
Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming.
Anyone who has passed though the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape.
The humblest painter is a true scholar and the best of scholars the scholar of nature.
There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our firends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we p...
We often choose a friend as we do a mistress for no particular excellence in themselves but merely from some circumstance that flatters our self-love.