Don't stumble over something behind you.
While we are postponing, life speeds by.
The best cure for anger is delay.
He who seeks wisdom is a wise man; he who thinks he has found it is mad.
Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
A good mind possesses a kingdom.
Wisdom comes to no one by chance.
If wisdom were offered me with this restriction, that I should keep it close and not communicate it, I would refuse the gift.
A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant.
Luck never made a man wise.
The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
There is nothing the wise man does reluctantly.
If you would judge, understand.
There are a few men whom slavery holds fast, but there are many more who hold fast to slavery.
If wisdom were offered me with the proviso that I should keep it shut up and refrain from declaring it, I should refuse. There's no delight in owning anything unshared.
There is nothing the busy man is less busied with than living; there is nothing harder to learn.
Man's ideal state is realized when he has fulfilled the purpose for which he is born. And what is it that reason demands of him? Something very easy-that he live in accordance with his own nature.
No one can hold absolute power for long, controlled power endures.
You can only acquire it successfully if you cease to feel any sense of shame.
If you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be angry but go insane.
There is about wisdom a nobility and magnificence in the fact that she doesn't just fall to a person's lot, that each man owes her to his own efforts, that one doesn't go to anyone other than oneself to find her.
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 to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.
