It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and to prefer things in measure to things in excess.
Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?
He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
When I think over what I have said, I envy dumb people.
Light troubles speak; the weighty are struck dumb.
He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.
Love in its essence is spiritual fire.
Life's like a play: it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.
No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.
God is the universal substance in existing things. He comprises all things. He is the fountain of all being. In Him exists everything that is.
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.
Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.
It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence.
It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.
If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.
A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.
The first step in a person's salvation is knowledge of their sin.
It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with; something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace; some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappears on the scene.
The way is long if one follows precepts, but short... if one follows patterns.
