A benefit is estimated according to the mind of the giver.
He who blushes at riding in a rattletrap, will boast when he rides in style.
A crowd of fellow-sufferers is a miserable kind of comfort.
Epicurus says that you should rather have regard to the company with whom you eat and drink, than to what you eat and drink.
The whole discord of this world consists in discords.
It is dishonorable to say one thing and think another; how much more dishonorable to write one thing and think another.
It is easier to grow in dignity than to make a start.
A thing seriously pursued affords true enjoyment.
It is the practice of the multitude to bark at eminent men, as little dogs do at strangers.
The voice of flattery affects us after it has ceased, just as after a concert men find some agreeable air ringing in their ears to the exclusion of all serious business.
A great step toward independence is a good-humoured stomach.
Let the man, who would be grateful, think of repaying a kindness, even while receiving it.
The fearful face usually betrays great guilt.
He is not guilty who is not guilty of his own free will.
Tis not the belly’s hunger that costs so much, but its pride.
He is ungrateful who denies that he has received a kindness which has been bestowed upon him; he is ungrateful who conceals it; he is ungrateful who makes no return for it; most ungrateful of all is he who forgets it.
What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law.
What is more insane than to vent on senseless things the anger that is felt towards men?
No man can live happily who regards himself alone, who turns everything to his own advantage. Thou must live for another, if thou wishest to live for thyself.
We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored.