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Last updated on April 20, 2025.
There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
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.
The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.
Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?
A well governed appetite is the greater part of liberty.
May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.
The approach of liberty makes even an old man brave.
Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.
One crime has to be concealed by another.
Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.
Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.
Nothing is void of God, his work is everywhere his full of himself.
When we are well, we all have good advice for those who are ill.
Do not ask for what you will wish you had not got.
Modesty forbids what the law does not.
Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed, and rightly.
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.
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.
It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, - superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare, that force us to grow old in camp, that dash us upon foreign shores.
When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy.
See how many are better off than you are, but consider how many are worse.
The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.
Whatever one of us blames in another, each one will find in his own heart.
No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.
True praise comes often even to the lowly; false praise only to the strong.
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.
It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and to prefer things in measure to things in excess.
Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other; yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely; for science is but one.
To keep oneself safe does not mean to bury oneself.
What is true belongs to me!
Whatever is well said by another, is mine.
The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth.
There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich.
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?
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.
Night brings our troubles to the light, rather than banishes them.
A great mind becomes a great fortune.
Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.
So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.
It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.
What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.
Whenever the speech is corrupted so is the mind.
Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.
Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough.
That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty.
Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself.
If you would judge, understand.
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.
It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.
Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment.
A large part of mankind is angry not with the sins, but with the sinners.
He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
The first step in a person's salvation is knowledge of their sin.
The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.
No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.
There is no delight in owning anything unshared.
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