Experience, travel – these are as education in themselves.
The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man.
The greatest pleasure of life is love.
Do not consider painful what is good for you.
To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.
Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence.
Every man is like the company he is wont to keep.
He is not a lover who does not love forever.
Toil, when consented to, is a pleasure.
The one who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The one who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been before.
Accept what life offers you and try to drink from every cup. All wines should be tasted; some should only be sipped, but with others, drink the whole bottle.
Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor.
Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other.
Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.
Real love begins where nothing is expected in return.
Let no one think of me that I am humble or weak or passive; let them understand I am of a different kind: dangerous to my enemies, loyal to my friends. To such a life glory belongs.
When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.
The man who goes alone can start today, but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.
War is sweet to those who have never experienced it.
Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.
One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.
There is just one life for each of us: our own.
To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.
With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate, and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.
Whom the gods love dies young.
The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man.
To act intelligently one must act after collecting pertinent information, not before.
Where is intelligence born? Intelligence is born within ourselves. It is what we are, the product of what we ourselves have thought.
Peace is better than war, because wars are won by skill, but peace brings blessings.
One does nothing who tries to console a despondent person with word. A friend is one who aids with deeds at a critical time when deeds are called for.
They love their hair, because they do not think very much of their brains.
The one who learns and learns and doesn’t practice is like the one who plows and plows and never plants.
Nobody has learned much of anything of the affairs of others, and he must be wise who even knows a great deal concerning his own.
Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.
To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.
Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
A wise person does not want natural talents, but does develop the ones they have.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
The greatest pleasure of life is love.
Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence.
Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.
Whom the gods love dies young.
When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.
To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.
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