Life is full of chances and changes, and the most prosperous of men may ...meet with great misfortunes.
Between friends there is no need of justice.
Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion desire.
Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
Melancholy men are of all others the most witty.
God has many names, though He is only one Being.
Shame is an ornament to the young; a disgrace to the old.
Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior.
I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; the hardest victory is the victory over self.
The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge.
It is homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
Happiness seems to require a modicum of external prosperity.
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow - ripening fruit.
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wished it for my sake.
We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.
Honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action.
Art not only imitates nature, but also completes its deficiencies.
Man is by nature a civic animal.
What lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.
Friends are an aid to the young, to guard them from error, to the elderly, to attend to their wants and to supplement their failing power of action; to those in the prime of life to assist them to noble deeds.
A friend to all is a friend to none.
It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.
In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous
Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.
Revolutions are not about trifles, but spring from trifles.
There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.
Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.
Quality is not an act. It is a habit.
To enjoy the things we ought, and to hate the things we ought, has the greatest bearing on excellence of character.
Hope is a waking dream.
We should behave to out friends as we would wish out friends to behave to us.
Happiness is an expression of the soul in considered actions.
Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life.
The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.
The physician heals, Nature makes well.
All men seek one goal: success or happiness.
A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
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