"A man who suffers before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary"
"A large part of mankind is angry not with the sins, but with the sinners"
"A well governed appetite is the greater part of liberty"
"Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune"
"A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature"
"A great mind becomes a great fortune"
"A great fortune is a great slavery"
"A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer"
"A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials"
"That is never too often repeated, which is never sufficiently learned"
"Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things"
"Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind"
"Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough"
"The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company"
"The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger"
"While we are postponing, life speeds by"
"The approach of liberty makes even an old man brave"
"The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity"
"Do everything as in the eye of another"
"Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all"
"We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right"
"True praise comes often even to the lowly; false praise only to the strong"
"It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so"
"Do not ask for what you will wish you had not got"
"Sometimes even to live is an act of courage"
"See how many are better off than you are, but consider how many are worse"
"He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule"
"Every reign must submit to a greater reign"
"Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself"
"No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline"
"I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with; something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace; some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappears on the scene"
"Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color"
"Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?"
"The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable"
"Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering"
"It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult"
"So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you"
"I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open?"
"When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy"
"Whatever one of us blames in another, each one will find in his own heart"
"Whatever is well said by another, is mine"
"Whatever fortune has raised to a height, she has raised only to cast it down"
"What nature requires is obtainable, and within easy reach. It is for the superfluous we sweat"
"What is true belongs to me!"
"What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more"
"We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers"
"We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered today? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift"
"There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage"
"There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals"
"There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse"
