No man is free who is a slave to the flesh.
No man is free who is a slave to the flesh.
Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence. Diligentia maximum etiam mediocris ingeni subsidium.
Take away ambitions and vanity, and where will be your heroes and patriots.
Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
That grief is light which can take counsel.
Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can't find.
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.
No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
It is with life as with a playit matters not how long the action is spun out, but how good the acting is.
Night brings our troubles to the light, rather than banishes them.
If you would make a man happy, do not add to his possessions but subtract from the sum of his desires.
Friendship always benefits love sometimes injures.
He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
You roll my log, and I will roll yours.
Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself.
You must live for another if you wish to live for yourself.
If you would judge, understand.
Courage leads to heaven fear leads to death.
The language of truth is simple.
The way to wickedness is always through wickedness.
There is nothing which persevering effort and unceasing and diligent care can not accomplish.
Why do people not confess vices It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only who can tell their dreams.
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.
Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insinuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.
When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy.
While we are postponing, life speeds by.
Remember that pain has this most excellent quality if prolonged it cannot be severe, and if severe it cannot Be prolonged.
The foremost art of kings is the ability to endure hatred.
The approach of liberty makes even an old man brave.
There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich.
No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated.
Nothing is more dishonorable than an old man, heavy with years, who has no other evidence of his having lived long except his age.
To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.
You cannot escape necessities, but you can overcome them.
There are no greater wretches in the world than many of those whom people in general take to be happy.
The first step in a person's salvation is knowledge of their sin.
Whenever the speech is corrupted so is the mind.
No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.
Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember.
To see a man fearless in dangers. untainted with lusts, happy in adversity, composed in a tumult, and laughing at all those things which are generally either coveted or feared, all men must acknowledge that this can be from nothing else but a beam of divinity that influences a mortal body.
It is uncertain in what place death may await thee therefore expect it in any place.
It goes far toward making a man faithful to let him understand that you think him so and he that does but suspect I will deceive him, gives me a sort of right to do so.
There is no genius without a mixture of madness.
The first petition that we are to make to Almighty God is for a good conscience, the next for health of mind, and then of body.
A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.
The things hardest to bear are sweetest to remember.
A man's as miserable as he thinks he is.
Light troubles speak immense troubles are silent.
It is extreme evil to depart from the company of the living before you die.
Let him who has given a favor be silent let he who has received it tell it. Qui dedit beneficium taceat narrat qui accepit.
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