If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.
Confine yourself to the present.
Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.
Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last.
Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.
To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.
Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.
A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions.
Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.
Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.
A man should be upright, not be kept upright.
The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.
Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.
Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.
Be content to seem what you really are.
We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of our controversies come from that.
Men exist for the sake of one another.
Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.
Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it... Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle.
Where a man can live, he can also live well.
The universe is transformation: life is opinion.
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.
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.
Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers.
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.
Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.
Our life is what our thoughts make it.
Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already.
Do every act of your life as if it were your last.
Poverty is the mother of crime.