Reason speaks and feeling bites.
It is a true proverb, that if you live with a lame man, you will learn to limp.
He who owns a hundred sheep must fight with fifty wolves.
Learn to be pleased with everything, with wealth so far as it makes us beneficial to others; with poverty, for not having much to care for; and with obscurity, for being unenvied.
Prosperity has this property; it puffs up narrow souls, makes them imagine themselves high and mighty, and leads them to look down upon the world with contempt; but a truly noble spirit appears greatest in distress;.
A traveller at Sparta, standing long upon one leg, said to a Lacedaemonian, “I do not believe you can do as much.” “True,” said he, “but every goose can.”
Philosophy is an act of living.
As geographers, Sosius, crowd into the edges of their maps parts of the world which they do not know about, adding notes in the margin to the effect that beyond this lies nothing but sandy deserts full of wild beasts, and unapproachable bogs.
What is bigger than an elephant? But this also is become man’s plaything, and a spectacle at public solemnities; and it learns to skip, dance, and kneel.
He shall fare well who confronts circumstances aright.
Democritus said, words are but the shadows of actions.
I see the cure is not worth the pain.
I confess myself the greatest coward in the world, for I dare not do an ill thing.
Silence is an answer to a wise man.
Hesiod might as well have kept his breath to cool his pottage.
Were it only to learn benevolence to humankind, we should be merciful to other creatures.
For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human.
That we may consult concerning others, and not others concerning us.
Instead of using medicine, better fast today.
The man who first brought ruin upon the Roman people was he who pampered them by largesses and amusements.