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“We are members of one great body, planted by nature…. We must consider that we were born for the good of the whole”
“A guilty person sometimes has the luck to escape detection, but never to feel sure of it.”
“And do you know why we have not the power to attain this Stoic ideal? It is because we refuse to believe in our power. Nay, of a surety, there is something else which plays a part: it is because we...”
“Let us cherish and love old age; for it is full of pleasure if one knows how to use it. Fruits are most welcome when almost over; youth is most charming at its close; the last drink delights the to...”
“Those who wish their virtue to be advertised are not striving for virtue but for renown. Are you not willing to be just without being renowned? Nay, indeed you must often be just and be at the same...”
“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 fe...”
“Cling, therefore, to this sound and wholesome plan of life; indulge the body just so far as suffices for good health. ... Your food should appease your hunger, your drink quench your thirst, your c...”
“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 im...”
“To expel hunger and thirst there is no necessity of sitting in a palace and submitting to the supercilious brow and contumelious favour of the rich and great there is no necessity of sailing upon t...”
“Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.”
“What must be shall be and that which is a necessity to him that struggles is little more than choice to him that is willing.”
“Brave men rejoice in adversity just as brave soldiers triumph in war.”
“Fire is the test of gold adversity of strong men.”
“The good things that belong to prosperity are to be wished but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.”
“If we let things terrify us life will not be worth living.”
“It is not death we fear but the thought of it.”
“If you are surprised at the number of our maladies count our cooks.”
“Fortune reveres the brave and overwhelms the cowardly.”
“For many men the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles it only changes them.”
“When I think over what I have said I envy dumb people.”
