The highest duty and the highest proof of wisdom – that deed and word should be in accord.
The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it.
I have withdrawn not only from men, but from affairs, especially my own affairs; I am working for later generations, writing down some ideas that may be of assistance to them.
For what else is Nature but God and the Divine Reason that pervades the whole universe and all its parts.
Choose as a guide one whom you will admire more when you see him act than when you hear him speak.
The person you are matters more than the place to which you go.
You roll my log, and I will roll yours.
Let us bear with magnanimity whatever it is needful for us to bear.
Refrain from following the example of those whose craving is for attention, not their own improvement.
If you are wise, You will mingle one thing with the other- Not hoping without doubt; Not doubting without hope.
Our words should aim not to please, but to help.
That which Fortune has not given, she cannot take away.
Some lack the fickleness to live as they wish and just live as they have begun.
The mind, unless it is pure and holy, cannot see God.
Men can be divided into 2 groups: one that goes ahead and achieves something, and one that comes after and criticizes.
No good thing is pleasant without friends to share it.
Luck is preparation multiplied by opportunity.
The young man must store up, the old man must use.
He shows a greater mind who does not restrain his laughter, than he who does not deny his tears.
We gain so much by quickness, and lose so much by slowness.