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.
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.
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.
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.
Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.
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.
It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.
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 conduct.
