aphorisms

"Delay is always vexatious, but it is wisdom's opportunity."

"Understand your friend's character, but do not hate it."

"Every thing which has birth, must pay tribute to death."

"We should bear our destiny, not weep over it."

"Depravity is its own greatest punishment."

"Fortune takes nothing away but her own gifts."

"The truth is lost when there is too much contention about it."

"It is only the ignorant who despise education."

"Do not despise the lowest steps in the ascent to greatness."

"He is not likely to perish in the ruins who trembles at a crack in the wall."

"That is not yours which fortune made yours."

"You will find it difficult to be sole guardian over that which multitudes covet."

"Man's life is a loan, not a gift."

"The sinner who repented after the offense, was a little imprudent."

"To do good you should know what good is."

"There are some remedies worse than the disease."

"The most formidable enemy lies hid in one's own heart."

"Repentance for our past deeds is a severe mental punishment."

"A noble steed is not annoyed by the barking of dogs."

"An over-taxed patience gives way to fierce anger."

"Do not take part in the council, unless you are called."

"Even when we get what we wish, it is not ours."

"A wise man rules his passions, a fool obeys them."

"Human reason grows rich by self-conquest."

"Tension weakens the bow; the want of it, the mind."

"When Gold argues the cause, eloquence is impotent."

"To receive a favor is to pawn your freedom."

"The more skillfully the language of goodness is assumed, the greater the depravity."

"In the presence of a good man, anger is speedily cooled."

"It is well to moor your bark with two anchors."

"Consult your conscience, rather than popular opinion."

"Consider what you ought to say, and not what you think."

"Wisdom had rather be buffeted than not be listened to."

"Folly had rather be unheard than be buffeted."

"Reproach in misfortune is an unseasonable cruelty."

"He who can get more than belongs to him is apt to accommodate his desires to his opportunity."

"Every man is a master in his own calling"

"Patience is a remedy for every sorrow."

"The greatest of comforts is to be free from blame."

"One day treats us like a hireling nurse, another, like a mother."

"Pleasant is the remembrance of the ills that are past."

"Avoid cupidity, and you conquer a kingdom."

"A kindness should be received in the spirit that prompted it."

"Speed itself is slow when cupidity waits."

"The party to which the rabble belong is ever the worst."

"Even calamity becomes virtue's opportunity."

"The good to which we have become accustomed, is often an evil."

"He who takes counsel of good faith, is just even to an enemy."

"It is sometimes expedient to forget who we are."

"It is a useless defense which cannot find a fair trial."