Our sins are more easily remembered than our good deeds.
Betray a friend, and you’ll often find you have ruined yourself.
I laugh at those who think they can damage me. They do not know who I am, they do not know what I think, they cannot even touch the things which are really mine and with which I live.
One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is love.
The mob is the mother of tyrants.
The society that separates its scholars from its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting by fools.
Epictetus being asked how a man should give pain to his enemy answered, By preparing himself to live the best life that he can.
He whom loves touches not walks in darkness.
Men should strive to think much and know little.
What makes a man a ‘sophist’ is not his faculty, but his moral purpose.
Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it.
There is no success without hardship.
Every dictator is an enemy of freedom, an opponent of law.
I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.
It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity.
He who feared that he would not succeed sat still.
A man’s character is his fate.
Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.
The greatest pleasure of life is love.
We are just statistics, born to consume resources.
Small-minded people blame others. Average people blame themselves. The wise see all blame as foolishness.
He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
Not all, what happens, happens because of fate. Something is in our hands.
Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.
Fortify yourself with contentment for this is an impregnable fortress.
It is better to die of hunger having lived without grief and fear, than to live with a troubled spirit, amid abundance.
Where your talents and the needs of the world cross, there lies your calling.
First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.
I will suffer nothing as great as death without glory.
Everything in excess Is opposed by nature.
Freedom is the power to live as we choose.
Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
Evil is the vulgar lover who loves the body rather than the soul, inasmuch as he is not even stable, because he loves a thing which is in itself unstable, and therefore when the bloom of youth which he was desiring is over, he takes wing and flies away, in spite of all his words and promises; whereas the love of the noble disposition is life-long, for it becomes one with the everlasting.
He that is discontented in one place will seldom be happy in another.
No man is free who is not master of himself.
When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty and there is nothing to fear from them then he is always stirring up some wary or other in order that the people may require a leader.
Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.
And it is a characteristic of man that he alone has any sense of good and evil, of just and unjust, and the like, and the association of living beings who have this sense makes a family and a state.
Difficulty shows what men are.
The haft of the arrow had been feathered with one of the eagles own plumes. We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction.
The tyrant will always find a pretext for his tyranny.
When misfortune comes, The wisest even lose their mother wit
