In critical moments even the very powerful have need of
the weakest.
Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your
own.
It is thrifty to prepare today for the wants of tomorrow.
They must often change who would be constant in happiness
or wisdom.
I grow old learning something new every day.
Let no man be called happy before his death. Till
then, he is not happy, only lucky.
No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.
Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.
Rich people without wisdom and learning are but sheep
with golden fleeces.
Society is well governed when its people obey the
magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law.
Speech is the mirror of action.
Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a
stomachache and a headache.
He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world
a benefit when he dies.
Hope is patience with the lamp lit.
You can judge the quality of their faith from the way
they behave.  Discipline is an index to
doctrine.
The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.
Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money.
You cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom
is all or nothing.
Men naturally despise those who court them, but respect
those who do not give way to them.
The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision
of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet
notwithstanding, go out to meet it.
The secret of happiness is freedom. The secret of freedom
is courage. Wars spring from unseen and generally
insignificant causes, the first outbreak being often but
an explosion of anger.
Faith is not sure, if you cannot turn love to quarrel;
may my enemies obtain a mild mistress.
Let each man pass his days in that wherein his skill is
greatest.
Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
Let no one be willing to speak ill of the absent.
Afflicted by love's madness all are blind.
Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.
Do not consider painful what is good for you.
Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.
Your very silence shows you agree.
A bad beginning makes a bad ending.
Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a
master.
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great
enterprises.
The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to
correct ourselves.
To remind a man of the good turns you have done him is
very much like a reproach.
What we have in us of the image of God is the love of
truth and justice.
After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no
monument than why I have one.
An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.
Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternatives.
The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh
them with new.
The first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches
nearest to the gods who knows how to be silent, even
though he is in the right.
Acquaintance lessens fame.
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A happy life consists in tranquillity of mind.
Advice is judged by results, not by intentions.
Never go to excess, but let moderation be your
guide.
Everything has its beauty but not everyone sees it.
He who will not economize will have to agonize.
Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.
A man's character is his fate.
Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the
former course is silly, the latter a mark of
prudence.
Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in
gold, happiness dwells in the soul.
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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the
work.
Misfortune shows those who are not really
friends.
Liars when they speak the truth are not
believed.
If thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the
true unhappiness is in doing it.
Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.
In giving advice seek to help, not to please,
your friend.
Now as of old the gods
give men all good things, excepting only those
that are baneful and injurious and useless.
These, now as of old, are not gifts of the gods:
men stumble into them themselves because of
their own blindness and folly.
