I teach that all men are mad.
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
Remember, when life’s path is steep, to keep your mind even.
If a man’s fortune does not fit him, it is like the shoe in the story; if too large it trips him up, if too small it pinches him.
Every old poem is sacred.
Let your character be kept up the very end, just as it began, and so be consistent.
Only a stomach that rarely feels hungry scorns common things.
If you wish me to weep, you must first show grief yourself.
Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment.
The secret of all good writing is sound judgment.
Gold will be slave or master.
Punishment closely follows guilt as its companion.
Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.
They change their climate, not their soul, who rush across the sea.
Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years.
The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.
The disgrace of others often keeps tender minds from vice.
Who then is free? The wise man who can command himself.
Life gives nothing to man without labor.
Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.
We rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life, and who, content with his life, can retire from the world like a satisfied guest.
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