Emotions and Feelings

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

No man is happy, he is at best fortunate.

In giving advice seek to help, not to please, your friend.

Call no man happy before he dies, he is at best but fortunate.

As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.

Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence.

If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.

Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.

Be slow to fall into friendship, but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.

He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.

Let him that would move the world first move himself.

He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.

From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.

From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.

Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity, nothing more easily managed that one is adversity.

Prosperity is no just scale, adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.

If I were not Alexander, I would be Diogenes.

When the strong box contains no more both friends and flatterers shun the door.

Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.

All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own.

Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little.

Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little.