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.
He who is everywhere is nowhere.
The Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.
I am telling you to be a slow-speaking person.
If I only have the will to be grateful, I am so.
Epicurus says, “gratitude is a virtue that has commonly profit annexed to it.” And where is the virtue that has not? But still the virtue is to be valued for itself, and not for the profit that attends it.
The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.
It’s all in your headJ you have the power to make things seem hard or easy or even amusing. The choice is yours.