The secret of success is that it is not the absence of failure, but the absence of envy.
If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it.
Men trust their ears less than their eyes.
But this I know: if all mankind were to take their troubles to market with the idea of exchanging them, anyone seeing what his neighbor's troubles were like would be glad to go home with his own.
Haste in every business brings failures.
Adversity has the effect of drawing out strength and qualities of a man that would have laid dormant in its absence.
The most hateful grief of all human griefs is to have knowledge of a truth, but no power over the event.
Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.
Where wisdom is called for, force is of little use.
When a woman removes her garment, she also removes the respect that is hers.
In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.
I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.
It is better to be envied than pitied.
A man calumniated is doubly injured -- first by him who utters the calumny, and then by him who believes it.
Happiness is not fame or riches or heroic virtues, but a state that will inspire posterity to think in reflecting upon our life, that it was the life they would wish to live.
Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.
To think well and to consent to obey someone giving good advice are the same thing.
The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.
All of life is action and passion, and not to be involved in the actions and passions of your time is to risk having not really lived at all.
Great things are won by great dangers.
When life is so burdensome death has become a sought after refuge.
Force has no place where there is need of skill.
Let there be nothing untried; for nothing happens by itself, but men obtain all things by trying.
He is the best man who, when making his plans, fears and reflects on everything that can happen to him, but in the moment of action is bold.
If one is sufficiently lavish with time, everything possible happens.
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