- As long as you live, keep learning how to live.
- So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.
- What is true belongs to me!
- Whatever is well said by another, is mine.
- Whatever fortune has raised to a height, she has raised only to cast it down.
- Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough.
- One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.
- True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
- It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.
- If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.
- The wish for healing has always been half of health.
- The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.
- 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.
- A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.
- A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
- Life's like a play: it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.
- A sword never kills anybody; it is a tool in the killer's hand.
- It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
- The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.
- It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.
- Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.
- Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
- It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
- Life is the fire that burns and the sun that gives light. Life is the wind and the rain and the thunder in the sky. Life is matter and is earth, what is and what is not, and what beyond is in Eternity.
- Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.
- Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.
- For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
- Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
- 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.
- A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.
- You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
- The first step in a person's salvation is knowledge of their sin.
- There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
- The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man... It is more powerful than external circumstances.
- No one can be happy who has been thrust outside the pale of truth. And there are two ways that one can be removed from this realm: by lying, or by being lied to.
- All cruelty springs from weakness.
- The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin.
- There is no great genius without some touch of madness.
- Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes.
- No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.
- He who has great power should use it lightly.
- A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.
- Slavery takes hold of few, but many take hold of slavery.
- It is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing.
- In war there is no prize for runner-up.
- We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.
- We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.
- Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.
- For greed all nature is too little.
- Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today.
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