The most onerous slavery is to be a slave to oneself.
Unjust dominion cannot be eternal.
We most often go astray on a well trodden and much frequented road.
Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.
Without an adversary prowess shrivels. We see how great and efficient it really is only when it shows by endurance what it is capable of.
Live for thy neighbor if thou wouldst live for thyself.
A hated government does not long survive.
It is not goodness to be better than the worst.
The foundation of the true joy is in the conscience.
A man’s ability cannot possibly be of one sort and his soul of another. If his soul be well-ordered, serious and restrained, his ability also is sound and sober. Conversely, when the one degenerates, the other is contaminated.
There is nothing more miserable and foolish than anticipation.
Economy is in itself a great source of revenue.
There is nothing the busy man is less busied with than living; there is nothing harder to learn.
These individuals have riches just as we say that we ‘have a fever,’ when really the fever has us.
You cannot escape necessities, but you can overcome them.
It is never too late to learn what is always necessary to know.
You should keep on learning as long as there is something you do not know.
We are sure to get the better of fortune if we do but grapple with her.
The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution.
A large library is apt to distract rather than to instruct the learner; it is much better to be confined to a few authors than to wander at random over many.