Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.
No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
That is never too often repeated, which is never sufficiently learned.
Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today.
He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.
One must steer, not talk.
The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.
The first step in a person’s salvation is knowledge of their sin.
What is true belongs to me!
Nothing is void of God, his work is everywhere his full of himself.
It is often better not to see an insult than to avenge it.
This life is only a prelude to eternity.
Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed, and rightly.
Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.
He who does not want to die should not want to live. For life is tendered to us with the proviso of death. Life is the way to this destination.
Our posterity will wonder about our ignorance of things so plain.
True wisdom consists in not departing from nature and in molding our conduct according to her laws and model.
No one is laughable who laughs at himself.
Anyone can stop a man’s life, but no one his death; a thousand doors open on to it.
Small sorrows speak great ones are silent.