If you really want to escape the things that harass you, what you’re needing is not to be in a different place but to be a different person.
To rule yourself is the ultimate power.
There is nothing wrong with changing a plan when the situation has changed.
The many speak highly of you, but have you really any grounds for satisfaction with yourself if you are the kind of person the many understand?
What is required is not a lot words, but effectual ones.
The pleasures of the palate deal with us like Egyptian thieves who strangle those whom they embrace.
We are more easily led part by part to an understanding of the whole. -Facilius per partes in cognitionem totius adducimur.
He who comes to a conclusion when the other side is unheard, may have been just in his conclusion, but yet has not been just in his conduct.
What view is one likely to take of the state of a person’s mind when his speech is wild and incoherent and knows no constraint?
I do not distinguish by the eye, but by the mind, which is the proper judge of the man.
An action will not be right unless the will be right; for from thence is the action derived. Again, the will will not be right unless the disposition of the mind be right; for from thence comes the will.
The guilt of enforced crimes lies on those who impose them.
There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
Misfortune is the test of a person’s merit.
Who needs forgiveness, should the same extend with readiness.
Let us ask what is best – not what is customary. Let us love temperance – let us be just – let us refrain from bloodshed.
A young man respects and looks up to his teachers.
Human society is like an arch, kept from falling by the mutual pressure of its parts.
It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness. As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.
Time hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal.