Voyage, travel, and change of place impart vigor.
Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.
Time discovers truth.
Sadness usually results from one of the following causes either when a man does not succeed, or is ashamed of his success.
No one can be happy who has been thrust outside the pale of truth. And there are two ways that one can be removed from this realm: by lying, or by being lied to.
Our fears are always more numerous than our dangers.
The articulate, trained voice is more distracting than mere noise.
Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness it is to be expecting evil before it comes.
It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.
The mind that is anxious about future events is miserable.
He that does good to another does good also to himself.
Do everything as in the eye of another.
The great pilot can sail even when his canvass is rent.
Rehearse death. To say this is to tell a person to rehearse his freedom. A person who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave. He is above, or at any rate, beyond the reach of, all political powers.
The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.
It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth.
To the person who does not know where he wants to go there is no favorable wind.
Man’s ideal state is realized when he has fulfilled the purpose for which he is born. And what is it that reason demands of him? Something very easy-that he live in accordance with his own nature.
As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit.
Fire proves gold, adversity proves men.