Truth will never be tedious unto him that travelleth in the secrets of nature; there is nothing but falsehood that glutteth us.
The most imperious masters over their own servants are at the same time the most abject slaves to the servants of others.
He that by harshness of nature rules his family with an iron hand is as truly a tyrant as he who misgoverns a nation.
If you are surprised at the number of our maladies, count our cooks.
No man is free who is a slave to the flesh.
Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.
It’s a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.
The great blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach; but we shut our eyes, and, like people in the dark, we fall foul upon the very thing we search for, without finding it.
The willing, destiny guides them; the unwilling, destiny drags them.
Greed’s worst point is its ingratitude.
Prudence and love cannot be mixed; you can end love, but never moderate it.
Great men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.
When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.
There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.
For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
A man’s as miserable as he thinks he is.
Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power.
He who has great power should use it lightly.
There’s one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude: confidence in self.