Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.
From Lucius Annaeus Seneca
For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
A sword never kills anybody; it is a tool in the killer's hand.
A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.
It's not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It's because we dare not venture that they are difficult.
What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.
We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered today? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.
No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.
A great mind becomes a great fortune.
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
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