"A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer"
"A punishment to some, to some a gift, and to many a favor"
"A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant"
"A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand"
"A man's as miserable as he thinks he is"
"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"
"As long as you live, keep learning how to live"
"Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall"
"Anger: an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured"
"Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends"
"Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature. Everything is organic and living, and therefore the whole world appears to be a living organism"
"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"
"Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God"
"Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself"
"God is the universal substance in existing things. He comprises all things. He is the fountain of all being. In Him exists everything that is"
"Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last"
"For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them"
"If you judge, investigate"
"If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail"
"If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind"
"He that does good to another does good also to himself"
"The approach of liberty makes even an old man brave"
"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"
"Do everything as in the eye of another"
"Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough"
"Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things"
"That is never too often repeated, which is never sufficiently learned"
"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"
"While we are postponing, life speeds by"
"He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule"
"Every reign must submit to a greater reign"
"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?"
"Sometimes even to live is an act of courage"
"See how many are better off than you are, but consider how many are worse"
"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 a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness"
"In war, when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of arms on Divine guidance, he no longer deserves victory"
