People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect. |
Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers. |
Philo declares he never dines at home, and that is no exaggeration: He has no place whereat to dine in Rome, Unless he hooks an invitation |
Poverty is the mother of crime. |
Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears. |
Remember how often you have postponed minding your interest, and let slip those opportunities the gods have given you. It is now high time to consider what sort of world you are part of, and from what kind of governor of it you are descended; that you have a set period assigned you to act in, and unless you improve it to brighten and compose your thoughts, it will quickly run off with you, and be lost beyond recovery. |
Remember that no man loses any other life than this which he now lives, nor lives any other than this which he now loses |
Remember that to change your mind and follow him who sets you right is to be none less free that you were before. |
Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life. |
Remember that what pulls the strings is the force hidden within; there lies the power to persuade, there the life - there, if one must speak out, the real man. |
Remember this, - that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life |
Remember this, - that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life |
Rest lightly on her earth, for she trod never heavily on thee |
Shame on the soul, to falter on the road of life while the body yet endures |
Since you are so well matched, and so much alike - a very bad wife, and a very bad husband - I wonder that you do not agree |