Powerful indeed is the empire of habit.

An angry man is again angry with himself, when he returns to reason

An angry father is most cruel towards himself.

The timid man calls himself cautious, the sordid man thrifty.

A friendship that can end never really began

It is a consolation to the wretched to have companions in misery

We tolerate without rebuke the vices with which we have grown familiar

Each day is the scholar of yesterday.

Never find your delight in another’s misfortune

He who flees from trial confesses his guilt

No one reaches a high position without daring.

Deliberate as often as you please, but when you decide it is once for all

No one knows what he can do till he tries

The happy man is not he who seems thus to others, but who seems thus to himself.

Better to be ignorant of a matter than half know it.

Practice is the best of all instructors.

The greatest of empires, is the empire over one’s self.

At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man’s work.

They live ill who expect to live always

Even a single hair casts its shadow

The remedy for wrongs is to forget them

Poverty wants much; but avarice, everything

The opportunity is often lost by deliberating.

Fate is not satisfied with inflicting one calamity.

He who helps the guilty shares the crime

To confess a fault freely is the next thing to being innocent of it

Do not despise the bottom rungs in the ascent to greatness.

We desire nothing so much as what we ought not to have

Necessity gives the law, but does not itself submit to it

It is a very hard undertaking to seek to please everybody

A gift in season is a double favor to the needy.

Patience is a remedy for every sorrow.

Take care that no one hates you justly.

Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

A man’s own character is the arbiter of his fortune.

Where there is unity, there is always victory

That should be considered long which can be decided but once.

To refuse graciously is to confer a favor.

From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.

He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.

Successful guilt is the bane of society

The things which belong to others please us more, and that which is ours, is more pleasing to others

Life is short, but its ills make it seem long

Intemperance is the physician’s provider

The most delightful pleasures cloy without variety

There are some remedies worse than the disease

Confession of our faults is the next thing to innocency

He who yields to his times acts wisely

No one knows what he is able to do until he tries.

He is truly wise who gains wisdom from another’s mishap