We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.
While we teach, we learn.
Maximum remedium est irae mora.
All the greatest blessings are a source of anxiety, and at no time should fortune be less trusted than when it is best; to maintain prosperity there is need of other prosperity, and in behalf of the prayers that have turned out well we must make stil...
True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The greatest blessing...
distringit librorum multitudo (the abundance of books is distraction)
Envy of other people shows how they are unhappy. Their continual attention to others behavior shows how they are boring.
How silly then to imagine that the human mind, which is formed of the same elements as divine beings, objects to movement and change of abode, while the divine nature finds delight and even self-preservation in continual and very rapid change.
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.
The willing, Destiny guides them. The unwilling, Destiny drags them.
It takes the whole of life to learn how to live, and--what will perhaps make you wonder more--it takes the whole of life to learn how to die.
Most powerful is he who has himself in his power.
And so when you see a man often wearing the robe of office, when you see one whose name is famous in the Forum, do not envy him; those things are bought at the price of life. They will waste all their years, in order that they may have one year recko...
The part of life we really live is small.' For all the rest of existence is not life, but merely time.
Fire tests gold, suffering tests brave men.
Love sometimes injures. Friendship always benefits, After friendship is formed you must trust, but before that you must judge.
If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
We are members of one great body, planted by nature…. We must consider that we were born for the good of the whole
We are born under circumstances that would be favorable if we did not abandon them. It was nature's intention that there should be no need of great equipment for a good life: every individual can make himself happy.
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
