Fine conduct is always spontaneous.
The kind of solace that arises from having company in misery is spiteful.
The man who thinks only of his own generation is born for few.
A troubled countenance oft discloses much.
We learn not for life but for the debating-room.
A disease is farther on the road to being cured when it breaks forth from concealment and manifests its power.
Death either destroys or unhusks us. If it means liberation, better things await us when our burden s gone: if destruction, nothing at all awaits us; blessings and curses are abolished.
Death takes us piecemeal, not at a gulp.
Death’s the discharge of our debt of sorrow.
There is nothing after death, and death itself is nothing.
Apples taste sweetest when they’re going.
The profit on a good action is to have done it.
Drunkenness doesn’t create vices, but it brings them to the fore.
He who fears from near at hand often fears less.
Forgive that you may be forgiven.
Fortune’s not content with knocking a man down; she sends him spinning head over heels, crash upon crash.
We have been born under a monarchy; to obey God is freedom.
Genius has never been accepted without a measure of condonement.
The best way to do good to ourselves is to do it to others; the right way to gather is to scatter.
Nobody becomes guilty by fate.