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"How much better to pursue a straight course and eventually reach that destination where the things that are pleasant are the things that are honorable finally become, for you, the same."
"Whom they have injured they also hate."
"Whoever has nothing to hope, let him despair of nothing."
"Where fear is, happiness is not."
"The path of increase is slow, but the road to ruin is rapid."
"A man is as unhappy as he has convinced himself he is."
"The greatest power of ruling consists in the exercise of self-control."
"The man who thinks only of his own generation is born for few."
"Every guilty person is his own hangman."
"The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned."
"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 anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open?"
"Nihil tam acerbum est in quo non æquus animus solatium inveniat. There is nothing so disagreeable, that a patient mind can not find some solace for it."
"My joy in learning is partly that it enables me to teach."
"Leisure without literature is death and burial alive."
"He who is everywhere is nowhere."
"Golden roofs break men's rest."
"Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence. -Diligentia maximum etiam mediocris ingeni subsidium"
"No possession is gratifying without a companion."
"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 disposition of the mind be right; for from thence comes the will."
"Disease is not of the body but of the place."