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When money is unreasonably coveted, it is a disease of the mind which is called avarice.
Through ignorance of what is good and what is bad, the life of men is greatly perplexed.
We cannot employ the mind to advantage when we are filled with excessive food and drink.
He cannot be strict in judging, who does not wish others to be strict judges of himself.
To the sick, while there is life there is hope. [Lat., Aegroto dum anima est, spes est.]
We were born to unite with our fellow men, and to join in community with the human race.
Every one is least known to himself, and it is very difficult for a man to know himself.
For my own part, I had rather be old only a short time than be old before I really am so.
A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue but the parent of all the other virtues.
A perverse temper and fretful disposition will make any state of life whatsoever unhappy.
Great is the power, great is the authority of a senate that is unanimous in its opinions.
There is no being of any race who, if he finds the proper guide, cannot attain to virtue.
In honorable dealing you should consider what you intended, not what you said or thought.
Every man should bear his own grievances rather than detract from the comforts of another.
The hours pass and the days and the months and the years, and the past time never returns.
There is nothing proper about what you are doing, soldier, but do try to kill me properly.
He who hangs on the errors of the ignorant multitude, must not be counted among great men.
Physicians, when the cause of disease is discovered, consider that the cure is discovered.
To freemen, threats are impotent. [Lat., Nulla enim minantis auctoritas apud liberos est.]
Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.
Thus in the beginning the world was so made that certain signs come before certain events.
The memory of past troubles is pleasant. [Lat., Jucunda memoria est praeteritorum malorum.]
The searching-out and thorough investigation of truth ought to be the primary study of man.
The leaders should all relate to this principle: the governed must be as happy as possible.
For he, indeed, who looks into the face of a friend beholds, as it were, a copy of himself.
It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.
Modesty is that feeling by which honorable shame acquires a valuable and lasting authority.
You must therefore love me, myself, and not my circumstances, if we are to be real friends.
It is not the place that maketh the person, but the person that maketh the place honorable.
Apollo, sacred guard of earth's true core, Whence first came frenzied, wild prophetic word.
A war is never undertaken by the ideal state, except in defense of its honor or its safety.
To know the laws is not to memorize their letter but to grasp their full force and meaning.
Even the ablest pilots are willing to receive advice from passengers in tempestuous weather.
For to me every sort of peace with the citizens seemed to be of more service than civil war.
It is foolish to pluck out one's hair for sorrow, as if grief could be assuaged by baldness.
It shows nobility to be willing to increase your debt to a man to whom you already owe much.
Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.
It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.
A person who is wise does nothing against their will, nothing with sighing or under coercion.
The avarice of the old: it's absurd to increase one's luggage as one nears the journey's end.
That folly of old age which is called dotage is peculiar to silly old men, not to age itself.
I remember the very thing that I do not wish to; I cannot forget the things I wish to forget.
If you wish to persuade me, you must think my thoughts, feel my feelings, and speak my words.
Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant, and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it.
Nothing is so great an adversary to those who make it their business to please as expectation.
It was fear that was then making you a good citizen, which is never a lasting teacher of duty.
For one day spent well, and agreeably to your precepts, is preferable to an eternity of error.
Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat. [Lat., Esse oportet ut vivas, non vivere ut edas.]
The spirit is the true self, not that physical figure which can be pointed out by your finger.
Anyone may fairly seek his own advantage, but no one has a right to do so at another's expense.