It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and to prefer things in measure to things in excess.
Precepts or maxims are of great weight and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can't find.
It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.
There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.
If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.
True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.
I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappears on the scene.
We are more often frightened than hurt and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.
It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.
For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both this is an observation of the Middle Way.
It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, - superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare, that force us to grow old in camp, that dash us upon foreign shores.
The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.
We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.