Freedom is not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance; it means compelling Fortune to enter the lists on equal terms.
No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.
Time discovers truth. Time heals what reason cannot.
What need is there to weep over parts of life? The whole of it calls for tears.
Fidelity purchased with money, money can destroy.
He that does good to another does good also to himself, not only in the consequence but in the very act. For the consciousness of well-doing is in itself ample reward.
There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
The best cure for anger is delay.
It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.
There are no greater wretches in the world than many of those whom people in general take to be happy.
Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit.
Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.
Whom they have injured, they also hate.
Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
Not he who has little, but he whose wishes more, is poor.
There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich.
It is a denial of justice not to stretch out a helping hand to the fallen that is the common right of humanity.
He has committed the crime who profits by it.
It is within the power of every man to live his life nobly, but of no man to live forever. Yet so many of us hope that life will go on forever, and so few aspire to live nobly.
Gold is tried by fire, brave men by adversity.