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Do not ask for what you will wish you had not got.
A kingdom founded on injustice never lasts.
The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
I don't trust liberals, I trust conservatives.
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.
So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.
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.
Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.
There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse.
When we are well, we all have good advice for those who are ill.
You complain that there is an undersupply of books where you are. What matters is not how many you have but how good they are. Varied reading gives pleasure; selective reading does real good.
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.
He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
The first step in a person's salvation is knowledge of their sin.
Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
Every guilty person is his own hangman.
The way is long if one follows precepts, but short ... if one follows patterns.
Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.
Modesty forbids what the law does not.
What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.
All art is but imitation of nature.
Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things.
The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.
Nothing is void of God, his work is everywhere his full of himself.
The approach of liberty makes even an old man brave.
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.
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.
Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.
Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.
Every reign must submit to a greater reign.
Whatever is well said by another, is mine.
The things hardest to bear are sweetest to remember.
Love in its essence is spiritual fire.
To keep oneself safe does not mean to bury oneself.
Life, if well lived, is long enough.
That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty.
Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.
Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough.
A large part of mankind is angry not with the sins, but with the sinners.
The heart is great which shows moderation in the midst of prosperity.
Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.
Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.
It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.
Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself.
I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with; something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace; some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappears on the scene.
It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence.
No man enjoys the true taste of life, but he who is ready and willing to quit it.
He that does good to another does good also to himself.
It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.
When I think over what I have said, I envy dumb people.
If you judge, investigate.
Whatever one of us blames in another, each one will find in his own heart.
Life is warfare.
In war there is no prize for runner-up.
Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.
If you would judge, understand.
Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?
May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.
The wish for healing has always been half of health.
When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy.
The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man ... It is more powerful than external circumstances.
One must steer, not talk.
Do everything as in the eye of another.
There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich.
See how many are better off than you are, but consider how many are worse.
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.
The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin.
If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind.
It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.
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.
No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.
Light troubles speak; the weighty are struck dumb.
You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
Whatever fortune has raised to a height, she has raised only to cast it down.
In war, when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of arms on Divine guidance, he no longer deserves victory.
No one is laughable who laughs at himself.
If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.
Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all.
He who has great power should use it lightly.
Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune.
Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit.
A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two.
There is no delight in owning anything unshared.
A man who suffers before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary.
He has committed the crime who profits by it.
