The physician cannot prescribe by letter, he must feel the pulse.
Obedience is yielded more readily to one who commands gently.
No one’s so old that he mayn’t with decency hope for one more day.
Pleasure dies at the very moment when it charms us most.
No one loves his country for its size or eminence, but because it’s his own.
It is expedient for the victor to wish for peace restored; for the vanquished it is necessary.
Let us not seek our disease out of ourselves; ’tis in us, and planted in our bowels; and the mere fact that we do not perceive ourselves to be sick, renders us more hard to be cured.
Slavery holds few men fast; the greater number hold fast their slavery.
Whoever has nothing to hope, let him despair of nothing.
Happy he whoe’er, content with the common lot, with safe breeze hugs the shore, and, fearing to trust his skiff to the wider sea, with unambitious oar keeps close to the land.
Unfamiliarity lends weight to misfortune, and there was never a man whose grief was not heightened by surprise.
It is sweet to mingle tears with tears; Griefs, where they wound in solitude, Wound more deeply.
Light griefs do speak, while sorrow’s tongue is bound.
No emotion falls into dislike so readily as sorrow.
Nobody will keep the thing he hears to himself, and nobody will repeat just what he hears and no more.
If God adds another day to our life, let us receive it gladly.
Those who pass their lives in foreign travel find they contract many ties of hospitality, but form no friendships.
Who timidly requests invites refusal.
Abstinence is easier than temperance.
Truths open to everyone, and the claims aren’t all staked yet.