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Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so I shall choose my ...

A good conscience fears no witness, but a guilty conscience is solicitous even in solitude. If we do nothing but what is honest, let all ...

A great mind becomes a great fortune.

A great step toward independence is a good humored stomach.

A kingdom founded on injustice never lasts.

A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party there is no battle unless there be two.

All art is an imitation of nature.

All art is but imitation of nature.

All cruelty springs from weakness.

All things are cause for either laughter or weeping.

An action will not be right unless the will be right for from thence is the action derived. Again, the will will not be right unless the ...

An orator is a good man who is skilled in speaking.

An unpopular rule is never long maintained.

Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us that injury that provokes it.

As is a tale, so is life not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.

As long as you live, keep learning how to live.

As was his language so was his life.

Be not too hasty either with praise or blame speak always as though you were giving evidence before the judgement - Seat of the Gods.

Be not too hasty either with praise or blame; speak always as though you were giving evidence before the judgement - Seat of the Gods.

Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.

Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.

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 ...

Brother, the Great Spirit has made us all.... .

Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune all these are names of the one and selfsame God.

Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self - Love ...

Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - Not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it ...

Dangerous is wrath concealed. Hatred proclaimed doth lose its chance of wreaking vengeance.

Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labour the body.

Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness. - Epistulae ad Lucilium.

Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future one.

Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.

Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature. Everything is organic and living, and ...

Everything may happen. Omnio fieri possent.

Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.

Fate leads the willing and drags along the unwilling. - Epistulae ad Lucilium.

Fate rules the affairs of mankind with no recognizable order.

Fear keeps pace with hope. Nor does their so moving together surprise me; both belong to a mind in suspense, to a mind in a state of ...

Fire is the test of gold adversity, of strong men.

Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.

Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself.

He that visits the sick in hopes of a legacy, but is never so friendly in all other cases, I look upon him as being no better than a ...

He who boasts of his ancestry is praising the deeds of another.

He who boasts of his ancestry praises the merits of another. - Hercules Furens.

He who comes to a conclusion when the other side is unheard, may have been just in his conclusion, but yet has not been just in his ...

He who has great power should use it lightly.

He who has injured thee was stronger or weaker than thee. If weaker, spare him if stronger, spare thyself.

He who spares the wicked injures the good.

He will live ill who does not know how to die well.

I do not distinguish by the eye, but by the mind, which is the proper judge.

I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling.

I require myself not to be equal to the best, but to be better then the bad.

I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.

I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make ...

If a man does not know to what port he is steering, no wind is favourable to him.

If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind.

If a man knows not what harbour he seeks, any wind is the right wind.

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.

If thou live according to nature, thou wilt never be poor if according to the opinions of the world, thou wilt never be rich.

If virtue precede us every step will be safe.

If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.

If wisdom were offered me with this restriction, that I should keep it close and not communicate it, I would refuse the gift.

If you wished to be loved, love.

In every good man a God doth dwell.

It does not matter how many books you have, but how good the books are which you have.

It is a denial of justice not to stretch out a helping hand to the fallen that is the common right of humanity.

It is a denial of justice not to stretch out a helping hand to the fallen; that is the common right of humanity.

It is a great thing to know the season for speech and the season for silence.

It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.

It is better, of cours, to know useless things than to know nothing.

It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been ...

It is extreme evil to depart from the company of the living before you die.

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that things are difficult.

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.

It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.

It is pleasant at times to play the madman.

It is quality rather than quantity that matters.

It is rash to condemn where you are ignorant.

It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence.

It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth.

It is the sign of a week mind to be unable to bear wealth.

It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.

It is well to be born either a king or a fool.

It should be our care not so much to live a long life as a satisfactory one.

Laws do not persuade just because they threaten.

Let tears flow of their own accord their flowing is not inconsistent with inward peace and harmony.

Let tears flow of their own accord: their flowing is not inconsistent with inward peace and harmony.

Let us say what we feel, and feel what we say let speech harmonize with life.

Liesure without books is death, and burial of a man alive.

Life is a gift of the immortal Gods, but living well is the gift of philosophy.

Life without the courage for death is slavery.

Live among men as if God beheld you speak to God as if men were listening.

Live among men as if God beheld you; speak to God as if men were listening.

Live with men as if God saw you converse with God as if men heard you.

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.

Malice drinks one half of its own poison.

Many things have fallen only to rise higher.

Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.

Most powerful is he who has himself in his power.

No evil is without its compensation. The less money, the less trouble the less favor, the less envy. Even in those cases which put us out ...

No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.

No man enjoys the true taste of life, but he who is ready and willing to quit it.

No man ever became wise by chance.

No one can wear a mask for very long.

Nothing costs so much as what is bought by prayers.

Nothing deters a good man from doing what is honourable.

Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.

Nothing is so bitter that a calm mind cannot find comfort in it.

One hand washes the other.

One hand washes the other. Manus Manum Lavet.

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

One should count each day a separate life.

Our The Stoic motto, as you know, is live according to nature.

Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough.

Quemadmodum gladius neminem occidit, occidentis telum est.

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.

Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get ...

Speech is the mirror of the mind.

Speech is the mirror of the mind. Imago Animi Sermo Est.

That grief is light which can take counsel.

The arts are the servant wisdom its master.

The arts are the servant; wisdom its master.

The ascent from earth to heaven is not easy.

The best ideas are common property.

The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.

The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one.

The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error.

The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and ...

The greatest remedy for anger is delay.

The greatest wealth is a poverty of desires.

The hour which gives us life begins to take it away. - Hercules Furens.

The mind is slow to unlearn what it learnt early.

The most onerous slavery is to be a slave to oneself.

The pain of a disappointed wish necessarily produces less effect upon the mind if a man has not certainly promised himself success. - De ...

The path of precept is long, that of example short and effectual.

The soul has this proof of its divinity that divine things delight in it.

The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and perturbations to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the ...

There are more things, Lucilius, that frighten us than injure us, and we suffer more in imagination than in reality. - Epistulae ad ...

There is a noble manner of being poor and who does not know it will never be rich.

There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.

There is no great genius free from some tincture of madness.

There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.

There is nothing so disagreeable, that a patient mind cannot find some solace for it.

Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember.

This body is not a home but an inn, and that only briefly. - Epistulae ad Lucilium.

This is the reason we cannot complain of lifeit keeps no one against his wll.

Those whom fortune has never favoured are more joyful than those whom she has deserted. - De Tranquillitate Animi.

Time discovers truth.

Time heals what reason cannot.

To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.

To be feared is to fear no one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind.

To be feared is to fear: no one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind.

To greed, all nature is insufficient. - Hercules Oetaeus.

To see a man fearless in dangers. untainted with lusts, happy in adversity, composed in a tumult, and laughing at all those things which ...

To strive with an equal is dangerous with a superior, mad with an inferior, degrading.

To wish to be well is a part of becoming well.

Toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other.

truth never perishes Veritas numquam perit.

Unjust dominion cannot be eternal.

We are more wicked together than separately. If you are forced to be in a crowd, then most of all you should withdraw into yourself.

We become wiser by adversity prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.

We learn not in the school, but in life.

We most often go astray on a well trodden and much frequented road.

We should conduct ourselves not as if we ought to live for the body, but as if we could not live without it.

We should every night call ourselves to an account; What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation ...

We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the ...

Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.

What difference does it make how much you have What you do not have amounts to much more.

What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.

What does reason demand of a man A very easy thing - - To live in accord with his nature.

What does reason demand of a man? A very easy thing - - To live in accord with his nature.

What once were vices are manners now.

Whatever fortune has raised to a height, she has raised only to cast it down.

Whatever is to make us better and happy, God has placed either openly before us or close to us.

Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.

Where the speech is corrupted, the mind is also.

Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness.

While the fates permit, live happily life speeds on with hurried step, and with winged days the wheel of the headlong year is turned.

While the fates permit, live happily; life speeds on with hurried step, and with winged days the wheel of the headlong year is turned.

While we are postponing, life speeds by.

Why does no one confess his sins Because he is yet in them. It is for a man who has awoke from sleep to tell his dreams.

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - In firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as ...

Without an adversary prowess shrivels. We see how great and efficient it really is only when it shows by endurance what it is capable of.

You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.

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