What is morally wrong can never be advantageous, even when it enables you to make some gain that you believe to be to your advantage. The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious.
Freedom is participation in power.
A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation.
The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.
The face is a picture of the mind with the eyes as its interpreter.
Trust no one unless you have eaten much salt with him.
Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.
Dogs wait for us faithfully.
The life of the dead is placed on the memories of the living. The love you gave in life keeps people alive beyond their time. Anyone who was given love will always live on in another’s heart.
We are bound by the law, so that we may be free.
He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.
The contemplation of celestial things will make a man both speak and think more sublimely and magnificently when he descends to human affairs.
You must therefore love me, myself, and not my circumstances, if we are to be real friends.
It is difficult to set bounds to the price unless you first set bounds to the wish.
Friendship is nothing else than entire fellow feeling as to all things human and divine with mutual good-will and affection; and I doubt whether anything better than this, wisdom alone excepted, has been given to man.
In ancient times music was the foundation of all the sciences. Education was begun with music with the persuasion that nothing could be expected of a man who was ignorant of music.
All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be brief.
No power is strong enough to be lasting if it labors under the weight of fear.
It is certain that memory contains not only philosophy, but all the arts and all that appertain to the use of life.
There is in superstition a senseless fear of God.