Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today. Votes: 6
Calamity is virtue's opportunity. Votes: 5
Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders. Votes: 3
Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody. Votes: 0
A benefit consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer. Votes: 0
... frugality makes a poor man rich. Votes: 0
One hand washes the other. Votes: 0
The best way to do good to ourselves is to do it to others; the right way to gather is to scatter. Votes: 0
Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it. Votes: 0
Injustice never rules forever. Votes: 0
Ignorance is the cause of fear. Votes: 0
The pleasures of the palate deal with us like Egyptian thieves who strangle those whom they embrace. Votes: 0
Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one. Votes: 0
If you don't know, ask. You will be a fool for the moment, but a wise man for the rest of your life. Votes: 0
May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense. Votes: 0
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful. Votes: 0
One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood. Votes: 0
A good mind is a lord of a kingdom. Votes: 0
A good mind possesses a kingdom. Votes: 0
A good person dyes events with his own color . . . and turns whatever happens to his own benefit. Votes: 0
A great fortune is a great slavery. Votes: 0
A man can refrain from wanting what he has not and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand. Votes: 0
After death there is nothing. Votes: 0
All art is but imitation of nature. Votes: 0
All cruelty springs from weakness. Votes: 0
All we see and admire today will burn in the universal fire that ushers in a new, just, happy world. Votes: 0
As many servants so many enemies. Votes: 0
As the world leads we follow. Votes: 0
As was his language so was his life. Votes: 0
Be harsh with yourself at times. Votes: 0
Choose as a guide one whom you will admire more when you see him act than when you hear him speak. Votes: 0
Concealed anger is to be feared; but hatred openly manifested destroys its chance of revenge. Votes: 0
Dangerous is wrath concealed. Hatred proclaimed doth lose its chance of wreaking vengeance. Votes: 0
Death falls heavily on that man who, known too well to others, dies in ignorance of himself. Votes: 0
Death: There's nothing bad about it at all except the thing that comes before it-the fear of it. Votes: 0
Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed. Votes: 0
Every journey has an end. Votes: 0
Everything hangs on one's thinking. Votes: 0
Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature. Votes: 0
Everything may happen. Votes: 0
Expediency often silences justice. Votes: 0
Fear drives the wretched to prayer Votes: 0
Find a path or make one. Votes: 0
Fine conduct is always spontaneous. Votes: 0
For greed, all nature is too little. Votes: 0
Forgive that you may be forgiven. Votes: 0
Full of men, vacant of friends. Votes: 0
Golden roofs break men's rest. Votes: 0
He invites the commission of a crime who does not forbid it, when it is in his power to do so. Votes: 0
He shows a greater mind who does not restrain his laughter, than he who does not deny his tears. Votes: 0
He who is brave is free. Votes: 0
He who is everywhere is nowhere. Votes: 0
He who would arrive at the appointed end must follow a single road and not wander through many ways. Votes: 0
He worships God who knows him. Votes: 0
Home joys are blessed of heaven. Votes: 0
I would rather be sick than idle. Votes: 0
If thou wishest to get rid of thy evil propensities, thou must keep far from evil companions. Votes: 0
If you judge, investigate. Votes: 0
If you wish to be loved, love. Votes: 0
If you would judge, understand. Votes: 0
In every good man a God doth dwell. Votes: 0
It is a tedious thing to be always beginning life; they live badly who always begin to live. Votes: 0
It is difficult to bring people to goodness with lessons, but it is easy to do so by example. Votes: 0
It is expedient for the victor to wish for peace restored; for the vanquished it is necessary. Votes: 0
It is for the superfluous we sweat. Votes: 0
It is sweet to mingle tears with tears; Griefs, where they wound in solitude, Wound more deeply. Votes: 0
It is the constant fault and inseparable evil quality of ambition, that it never looks behind it. Votes: 0
It is the practice of the multitude to bark at eminent men, as little dogs do at strangers. Votes: 0
It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin. Votes: 0
It's the great soul that surrenders itself to fate, but a puny degenerate thing that struggles. Votes: 0
Learn how to feel joy. Votes: 0
Let him who has granted a favour speak not of it; let him who has received one, proclaim it. Votes: 0
Let tears flow of their own accord; their flowing is not inconsistent with inward peace and harmony. Votes: 0
Life is long if it is full. Votes: 0
Life is short and art is long. Votes: 0
Love of action is not industry. Votes: 0
Luck never made a man wise. Votes: 0
Man is a reasoning Animal. Votes: 0
Man is a social animal. Votes: 0
Many person might have achieved wisdom had they not supposed that they already possessed it. Votes: 0
Men learn while they teach. Votes: 0
Men practice war; beasts do not. Votes: 0
Men's language is as their lives. Votes: 0
Mercy often inflicts death. Votes: 0
Money has yet to make anyone rich. Votes: 0
Necessity is stronger than duty. Votes: 0
No evil is without its compensation. Votes: 0
No man ever became wise by chance. Votes: 0
No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself. Votes: 0
No man was ever wise by chance. Votes: 0
No one can have all he desires. Votes: 0
No one can keep a mask on long. Votes: 0
Nobody becomes guilty by fate. Votes: 0
Nothing is ours except time. Votes: 0
One must steer, not talk. Votes: 0
Praise thyself never. Votes: 0
Refuse to let the thought of death bother you: nothing is grim when we have escaped that fear. Votes: 0
Revenge is an inhuman word. Votes: 0
Self-denial is the best riches. Votes: 0
Simple is the language of truth. Votes: 0
Speech is the index of the mind. Votes: 0
Speech is the mirror of the mind. Votes: 0
Successful villany is called virtue. Votes: 0
Teach the art of living well. Votes: 0
That which we are not permitted to have we delight in; that which we can have is disregarded. Votes: 0
The best cure for anger is delay. Votes: 0
The best ideas are common property. Votes: 0
The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company. Votes: 0
The Germans, a race eager for war. Votes: 0
The greatest hindrance to living is expectancy, which depends upon tomorrow and wastes today Votes: 0
The miserable are sacred. Votes: 0
The proper amount of wealth is that which neither descends to poverty nor is far distant from it. Votes: 0
The sun shines even on the wicked. Votes: 0
The velocity with which time flies is infinite, as is most apparent to those who look back. Votes: 0
The voice is nothing but beaten air. Votes: 0
There are a few men whom slavery holds fast, but there are many more who hold fast to slavery. Votes: 0
There is no evil that does not offer inducements. Vices tempt you by the rewards which they offer. Votes: 0
There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds. Votes: 0
There is nothing the busy man is less busied with than living; there is nothing harder to learn. Votes: 0
There is nothing which persevering effort and unceasing and diligent care cannot accomplish. Votes: 0
These individulas have riches just as we say that we 'have a fever,' when really the fever has us. Votes: 0
Time discovers truth. Votes: 0
To be everywhere is to be nowhere. Votes: 0
To govern was to serve, not to rule. Votes: 0
To the stars through difficulties. Votes: 0
Tota vita nihil aliud quam ad mortem iter est. The whole of life is nothing but a journey to death. Votes: 0
Tranqility is a certain quality of mind, which no condition or fortune can either exalt or depress. Votes: 0
True love can fear no one. Votes: 0
Truth never perishes. Votes: 0
Unjust dominion cannot be eternal. Votes: 0
Unjust rule does not last forever. Votes: 0
We are always complaining that our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end to them. Votes: 0
We ought to take outdoor walks, to refresh and raise our spirits by deep breathing in the open air. Votes: 0
We pardon familiar vices. Votes: 0
What a great blessing is a friend with a heart so trusty you may safely bury all your secrets in it. Votes: 0
What difference does it make, after all, what your position in life is if you dislike it yourself? Votes: 0
What else is nature but God? Votes: 0
What is true belongs to me! Votes: 0
What nature requires is obtainable, and within easy reach. It is for the superfluous we sweat. Votes: 0
Whatever begins, also ends. Votes: 0
Whatever is to make us better and happy God has placed either openly before us or close to us. Votes: 0
When thou hast profited so much that thou respectest even thyself, thou mayst let go thy tutor. Votes: 0
Where fear is, happiness is not. Votes: 0
Whereas a prolonged life is not necessarily better, a prolonged death is necessarily worse. Votes: 0
While we teach, we learn. Votes: 0
While we wait for life, life passes Votes: 0
While you teach, you learn. Votes: 0
Who has more leisure than a worm? Votes: 0
Wisdom comes to no one by chance. Votes: 0
Wisdom teaches us to do, as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a colour. Votes: 0
You are your choices. Votes: 0
You find in some a sort of graceless modesty, that makes them ashamed to requite an obligation. Votes: 0
You must know for which harbor you are headed, if you are to catch the right wind to take you there. Votes: 0
You talk one way, you live another. Votes: 0