What is dishonorably got, is dishonorably squandered.
No one has the right to be sorry for himself for a misfortune that strikes everyone.
Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.
What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.
Nothing dries sooner than a tear.
We were born to unite with our fellow men, and to join in community with the human race.
Friendship was given by nature to be an assistant to virtue, not a companion in vice.
It is exercise alone that supports the spirits, and keeps the mind in vigor.
You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.
Do not hold the delusion that your advancement is accomplished by crushing others.
The cultivation of the mind is a kind of food supplied for the soul of man.
In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods, than in giving health to men.
There never was a great soul that did not have some divine inspiration.
There are gems of thought that are ageless and eternal.
They who say that we should love our fellow-citizens but not foreigners, destroy the universal brotherhood of mankind, with which benevolence and justice would perish forever.
The more virtuous any man is, the less easily does he suspect others to be vicious.
They are eloquent who can speak low things acutely, and of great things with dignity, and of moderate things with temper.
Every evil in the bud is easily crushed: as it grows older, it becomes stronger.
Care should be taken that the punishment does not exceed the guilt; and also that some men do not suffer for offenses for which others are not even indicted.
A man would have no pleasures in discovering all the beauties of the universe, even in heaven itself, unless he had a partner to whom he might communicate his joys.