He who is everywhere is nowhere.
The Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.
I am telling you to be a slow-speaking person.
If I only have the will to be grateful, I am so.
Epicurus says, “gratitude is a virtue that has commonly profit annexed to it.” And where is the virtue that has not? But still the virtue is to be valued for itself, and not for the profit that attends it.
The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.
It’s all in your headJ you have the power to make things seem hard or easy or even amusing. The choice is yours.
Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God.
A great mind becomes a great fortune.
I don’t trust liberals, I trust conservatives.
Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.
Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.
The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin.
One crime has to be concealed by another.
Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?
Whatever one of us blames in another, each one will find in his own heart.
The heart is great which shows moderation in the midst of prosperity.
Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.
Whenever the speech is corrupted so is the mind.
Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.