So live with an inferior as you would wish a superior to live with you.
Success gives the character of honesty to some classes of wickedness.
That which has been endured with difficulty is remedied with delight.
That which we are not permitted to have we delight in; that which we can have is disregarded.
The anger of those in authority is always weighty.
The friends of the unfortunate live a long way off.
The greatest power of ruling consists in the exercise of self-control.
The mind does not easily unlearn what it has been long in learning.
The more violent the storm the sooner it is over.
The rust of the mind is the destruction of genius.
The tempest threatens before it comes; houses creak before they fall.
The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active employment.
The way to good conduct is never too late.
The world itself is too small for the covetous.
There is no evil without its compensation.
Those griefs burn most which gall in secret.
To make a commencement requires a mental effort.
To meditate an injury is to commit one.
We have not to talk, but to steer the vessel.
What you do for an ungrateful man is thrown away.