No man enjoys the true taste of life, but he who is ready and willing to quit it.
There are no greater wretches in the world than many of those whom people in general take to be happy.
Those alone are wise who know how to love.
The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.
What should a wise person do when given a blow? Same as Cato when he was attacked; not fire up or revenge the insult., or even return the blow, but simply ignore it.
Whatever begins, also ends.
Life is most delightful on the downward slope.
There is nothing more despicable than an old man who has no other proof than his age to offer of his having lived long in the world.
While we teach, we learn.
The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.
You want to live-but do you know how to live? You are scared of dying-and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different from being dead?
The man who thinks only of his own generation is born for few.
They who have light in themselves will not revolve as satellites.
The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin.
If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.
It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth.
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.
We must take care to live not merely a long life, but a full one; for living a long life requires only good fortune, but living a full life requires character. Long is the life that is fully lived; it is fulfilled only when the mind supplies its own good qualities and empowers itself from within.
Men's language is as their lives.
A good mind possesses a kingdom.
The worse a person is the less he feels it.
Every guilty person is his own hangman.
Long is the road to learning by precepts, but short and successful by examples.
Rehearse death. To say this is to tell a person to rehearse his freedom. A person who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave. He is above, or at any rate, beyond the reach of, all political powers.
We should live as if we were in public view, and think, too, as if someone could peer into the inmost recesses of our hearts-which someone can!
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