A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant.
Find a path or make one.
Four things does a reckless man gain who covets his neighbor’s wife – demerit, an uncomfortable bed, thirdly, punishment, and lastly, hell.
Straightforwardness and simplicity are in keeping with goodness.
A hungry people listens not to reason, not cares for justice, nor is bent by any prayers.
You are your choices.
Love of action is not industry.
However wretched a fellow-mortal may be, he is still a member of our common species.
What must be shall be; and that which is a necessity to him that struggles, is little more than choice to him that is willing.
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim.
You must linger among a limited number of master-thinkers, and digest their works, if you would derive ideas which shall win firm hold in your mind.
Successful crime is dignified with the name of virtue; the good become the slaves of the wicked; might makes right; fear silences the power of the law.
To the stars through difficulties.
His head was turned by too great success.
Fortune can take away riches, but not courage...
A foolishness is inflicted with a hatred of itself.
That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty.
Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune.
Modesty forbids what the law does not.
Philosophy’s power to blunt all the blows of circumstance is beyond belief.