Emotions and Feelings

Calumny is only the noise of madmen.

Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits a sound pleasing to others, while itself is insensible of the music.

He has the most who is most content with the least.

He has the most who is most content with the least.

Dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards.

You cannot have a proud and chivalrous spirit if your conduct is mean and paltry; for whatever a man's actions are, such must be his spirit.

Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master.

No man who is not willing to help himself has any right to apply to his friends, or to the gods.

Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss.

Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.

No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.

Most people would rather give than get affection.

Bad men are full of repentance.

The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.

Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.

Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.

The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.

For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.