It is expedient for the victor to wish for peace restored; for the vanquished it is necessary.
Slavery holds few men fast; the greater number hold fast their slavery.
Whoever has nothing to hope, let him despair of nothing.
Happy he whoe’er, content with the common lot, with safe breeze hugs the shore, and, fearing to trust his skiff to the wider sea, with unambitious oar keeps close to the land.
Unfamiliarity lends weight to misfortune, and there was never a man whose grief was not heightened by surprise.
It is sweet to mingle tears with tears; Griefs, where they wound in solitude, Wound more deeply.
Light griefs do speak, while sorrow’s tongue is bound.
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.