No emotion falls into dislike so readily as sorrow.
Nobody will keep the thing he hears to himself, and nobody will repeat just what he hears and no more.
If God adds another day to our life, let us receive it gladly.
Those who pass their lives in foreign travel find they contract many ties of hospitality, but form no friendships.
Who timidly requests invites refusal.
Abstinence is easier than temperance.
Truths open to everyone, and the claims aren’t all staked yet.
Power exercised with violence has seldom been of long duration...
We are born to lose and to perish, to hope and to fear, to vex ourselves and others; and there is no antidote against a common calamity but virtue; for the foundation of true joy is in the conscience.
Men love their vices and hate them at the same time.
Lay hold of today’s task, and you will not depend so much upon tomorrow’s.
He worships God who knows him.
Let wickedness escape as it may at the bar, it never fails of doing justice upon itself; for every guilty person is his own hangman.
Let not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp, be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition.
Whatever fortune has raised to a height, she has raised only to cast it down.
Every reign must submit to a greater reign.
He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.
It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, – superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare, that force us to grow old in camp, that dash us upon foreign shores.
Everything that exceeds the bounds of moderation has an unstable foundation.
Money has never yet made anyone rich.