I've had two proposals since I've been a widow. I am a wonderful catch, you know. I have a lot of money.
The supply of time is a daily miracle. You wake up in the morning and lo! Your purse is magnificently filled with 24 hours of the unmanufactured tissue of the universe of life. It is yours! The most precious of your possessions.
Arnold Bennett
It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.
It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is from the top.
If egotism means a terrific interest in one's self, egotism is absolutely essential to efficient living.
Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.
Of all the inhabitants of the inferno, none but Lucifer knows that hell is hell, and the secret function of purgatory is to make of heaven an effective reality.
All wrong doing is done in the sincere belief that it is the best thing to do.
We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.
Seneca (Seneca the Elder)
We all sorely complain of the shortness of time, and yet have much more than we know what to do with. Our lives are either spent in doing nothing at all, or in doing nothing to the purpose, or in doing nothing that we ought to do. We are always complaining that our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end of them.
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.
The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin.
Every guilty person is his own hangman.
There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse.
I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.
It is part of the cure to wish to be cured.
He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
Remove severe restraint and what will become of virtue?
What should a wise person do when given a blow? Same as Cato when he was attacked; not fire up or revenge the insult., or even return the blow, but simply ignore it.
The acquisition of riches has been to many not an end to their miseries, but a change in them: The fault is not in the riches, but the disposition.
To keep oneself safe does not mean to bury oneself.
The first step in a person's salvation is knowledge of their sin.
Whatever has overstepped its due bounds is always in a state of instability.
There's one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude -- confidence in self.
Other men's sins are before our eyes; our own are behind our backs.
If sensuality were happiness, beasts were happier than men; but human felicity is lodged in the soul, not in the flesh.
You must live for another if you wish to live for yourself.
What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.
Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit.
A large part of mankind is angry not with the sins, but with the sinners.
Slavery takes hold of few, but many take hold of slavery.
When ever the speech is corrupted so is the mind.
When I think over what I have said, I envy dumb people.
Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.
What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.
A man who suffers before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary.
Calamity is virtue's opportunity.
Many shed tears merely for show, and have dry eyes when no one's around to observe them.
The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty.
Whenever you hold a fellow creature in distress, remember that he is a man.
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