A wise man will be the master of his mind. A fool will be it’s slave.

Life itself is short, but lasts longer than misfortunes.

I have often regretted my speech, but never my silence

One ungrateful man does an injury to all who stand in need of aid.

A good reputation is more valuable than money.

Everything is worth what its purchaser will pay for it

The fear of death is more to be dreaded then fear itself.

It is more easy to get a favor from fortune than to keep it

It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.

The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.

Speech is the mirror of the soul; as a man speaks, so is he.

It is kindness to immediately refuse what you intend to deny.

Practice is the best of all instructors

It is an unhappy lot which finds no enemies.

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

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

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.

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

Each day is the scholar of yesterday.

Never find your delight in another’s misfortune

He who flees from trial confesses his guilt

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 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.

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

The remedy for wrongs is to forget them

Poverty wants much; but avarice, everything

The opportunity is often lost by deliberating.

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.

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

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.