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.
We must be ever on the search for some persons whom we shall love and who will love us in return. If good will and affection are taken away, every joy is taken from life.
No one sees what is before his feet: they scan the tracks of heaven.
Aristoteles quidem ait: ‘Omnes ingeniosos melancholicos esse.’ Aristotle says that all men of genius are melancholy.
For it is commonly said: accomplished labours are pleasant.
There is nothing better fitted to delight the reader than change of circumstances and varieties of fortune.
Longing not so much to change things as to overturn them.
Can any one find in what condition his body will be, I do not say a year hence, but this evening?
The dutifulness of children is the foundation of all virtues.
Like, according to the old proverb, naturally goes with like.
Dissimulation creeps gradually into the minds of men.
He is an eloquent man who can treat humble subjects with delicacy, lofty things impressively, and moderate things temperately.
As the grace of man is in the mind, so the beauty of the mind is eloquence.