It goes far toward making a man faithful to let him understand that you think him so; and he that does but suspect I will deceive him, gives me a sort of right to do so.
Whatsoever has exceeded its proper limit is in an unstable position.
We should conduct ourselves not as if we ought to live for the body, but as if we could not live without it.
There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.
No possession is gratifying without a companion.
To strive with an equal is dangerous; with a superior, mad; with an inferior, degrading.
To err is human. To repeat error is of the Devil.
To lose a friend is the greatest of all evils, but endeavour rather to rejoice that you possessed him than to mourn his loss.
Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.
Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember.
Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.
The greatest wealth is a poverty of desires.
Poverty with joy isn’t poverty at all. The poor man is not one who has little, but one who hankers after more.
What else is nature but God?
Time is the greatest remedy for anger.
A favor is to a grateful man delightful always; to an ungrateful man only once.
Dead, we become the lumber of the world, And to that mass of matter shall be swept Where things destroyed with things unborn are kept.
Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.
True joy is a serene and sober motion; and they are miserably out so that take laughing for rejoicing; the seat of it is within, and there is no cheerfulness like the resolutions of a brave mind.