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Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
Oh, what darkness does great prosperity cast over our minds!
Four things does a reckless man gain who covets his neighbor's wife - demerit, an uncomfortable bed, thirdly, punishment, and lastly, hell
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
All cruelty springs from weakness.
Luck is where opportunity meets preparation.
Light griefs are plaintive , but great ones are dumb
Life's like a play it's not the length but the excellence of the acting that matters
We are born under circumstances that would be favorable if we did not abandon them. It was nature's intention that there should be no need of great equipment for a good life: every individual can make himself happy.
Fidelity that is bought with money may be overcome with money
Abstinence is easier than temperance
We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
Every day as it comes should be welcomed and reduced forthwith into our own possession as if it were the finest day imaginable. What flies past has to be seized at.
Nothing is burdensome if taken lightly, and nothing need arouse one's irritation so long as one doesn't make it bigger than it is by getting irritated."
Non est ad astra mollis e terris via" - "There is no easy way from the earth to the stars"
A multitude of executions discredits a king, as a multitude of funerals a doctor
The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth
He who boasts of his ancestry praises the merits of another
We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right
The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity
Det ille veniam facile, cui venia est opus - the one who needs pardon should readily grant it
Kalau anda ingin orang lain merahasiakan rahasia anda, simpanlah sendiri rahasia itu.
He who is brave is free
The road is long if one proceeds by way of precepts but short and effectual if by way of personal example.
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
Barley porridge, or a crust of barley bread, and water do not make a very cheerful diet, but nothing gives one keener pleasure than having the ability to derive pleasure even from that-- and the feeling of having arrived at something which one cannot be deprived of by any unjust stroke of fortune.
Spurn everything that is added by way of decoration and display by unneccesary labour. Relect that nothing merits admiration except the spirit, the impressiveness of which prevents it from being impressed by anything.
One hand washes the other.(Manus Manum Lavat)
I know that these mental disturbances of mine are not dangerous and give no promise of a storm; to express what I complain of in apt metaphor, I am distressed, not by a tempest, but by sea-sickness.
No good thing renders its possessor happy, unless his mind is reconciled to the possibility of loss; nothing, however, is lost with less discomfort than that which, when lost, cannot be missed."
A guilty person sometimes has the luck to escape detection, but never to feel sure of it.
The part of life we really live is small.' For all the rest of existence is not life, but merely time.
However much you possess there's someone else who has more, and you'll be fancying yourself to be short of things you need to exact extent to which you lag behind him.
...it is more civilized to make fun of life than to bewail it.
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 look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
Timendi causa est nescire - Ignorance is the cause of fear.
If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
If you look on wealth as a thing to be valued your imaginary poverty will cause you torment.
Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool
The shortest route to wealth is the contempt of wealth.
It is the power of the mind to be unconquerable.
It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth.
For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them
errare humanum est, sed perseverare diabolicum: 'to err is human, but to persist (in the mistake) is diabolical.
Huius (sapientis) opus unum est de divinis humanisque verum invenire; ab hac numquam recedit religio, pietas, iustitia ...
Nature does not reveal her mysteries once and for all.
Love sometimes injures. Friendship always benefits, After friendship is formed you must trust, but before that you must judge.
Life is like a play: it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.
To expect punishment is to suffer it; and to earn it is to expect it.
Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.
Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
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 death when I am about to depart from life.
Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.

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