Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.
Be content with what you are, and wish not change nor dread your last day, nor long for it.
Anger cannot be dishonest.
Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.
Our life is what our thoughts make it.
How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.
Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.
When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.
Very little is needed to make a happy life it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.
The universe is change our life is what our thoughts make it.
That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees.
How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.
Men exist for the sake of one another.
The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.
Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live.
Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.
Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.
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To live happily is an inward power of the soul.
Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.
When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.
Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.
To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.
There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.
The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.
Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.
You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.
A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions.
Do every act of your life as if it were your last.
Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.
Tomorrow is nothing, today is too late the good lived yesterday.