Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.
What is true belongs to me!
We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.
In war, when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of arms on Divine guidance, he no longer deserves victory.
See how many are better off than you are, but consider how many are worse.
A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
Whatever one of us blames in another, each one will find in his own heart.
Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.
That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty.
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.
Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other; yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely; for science is but one.
Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.
Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.
Life is the fire that burns and the sun that gives light. Life is the wind and the rain and the thunder in the sky. Life is matter and is earth, what is and what is not, and what beyond is in Eternity.
To keep oneself safe does not mean to bury oneself.
It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, - superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare, that force us to grow old in camp, that dash us upon foreign shores.
Whatever fortune has raised to a height, she has raised only to cast it down.
Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed, and rightly.
Every sin is the result of a collaboration.
He has committed the crime who profits by it.