Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.
Seneca (Seneca the Elder)
We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.
Where the fear is, happiness is not.
He who has injured thee was stronger or weaker than thee. If weaker, spare him; if stronger, spare thyself.
From speech in an Olympic Education event, 4 November 2000.
May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.
If you judge, investigate.
If you would judge, understand.
In my own time there have been inventions of this sort, transparent windows tubes for diffusing warmth equally through all parts of a building short-hand, which has been carried to such a perfection that a writer can keep pace with the most rapid speaker. But the inventing of such things is drudgery for the lowest slaves; philosophy lies deeper. It is not her office to teach men how to use their hands. The object of her lessons is to form the soul.
It is often better not to see an insult than to avenge it.
Most men ebb and flow in wretchedness between the fear of death and the hardship of life; they are unwilling to live, and yet they do not know how to die.
Whatever is well said by another, is mine.
Who can hope for nothing, should despair for nothing.
No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.
True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The great blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.
Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed, and rightly.
It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.
See how many are better off than you are, but consider how many are worse.
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind.
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