Whoever grows angry amid troubles applies a drug worse than the disease and is a physician unskilled about misfortunes.

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If we are to keep our democracy, there must be one commandment: Thou shalt not...

If we are to keep our democracy, there must be one commandment: Thou shalt not...

No enemy is worse than bad advice.

No enemy is worse than bad advice.

Men should pledge themselves to nothing; for reflection makes a liar of their resolution.

Men should pledge themselves to nothing; for reflection makes a liar of their resolution.

Whoever lives among many evils just as I, how can dying not be a source...

Whoever lives among many evils just as I, how can dying not be a source...

Wisdom is the most important part of happiness.

Wisdom is the most important part of happiness.

Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

No speech can stain what is noble by nature.

No speech can stain what is noble by nature.

The ideal condition would be, I admit, that men should be right by instinct; but...

The ideal condition would be, I admit, that men should be right by instinct; but...

Foolishness is indeed the sister of wickedness.

Foolishness is indeed the sister of wickedness.

Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it...

Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it...

It's impossible to speak what it is not noble to do.

It's impossible to speak what it is not noble to do.

If it were possible to cure evils by lamentation and to raise the dead with...

If it were possible to cure evils by lamentation and to raise the dead with...

No one longs to live more than someone growing old.

No one longs to live more than someone growing old.

It is best to live however one can be.

It is best to live however one can be.

Success is dependent on effort.

Success is dependent on effort.

Isn't it the sweetest mockery to mock our enemies?

Isn't it the sweetest mockery to mock our enemies?

A human being is only breath and shadow.

A human being is only breath and shadow.

But whoever gives birth to useless children, what would you say of him except that...

But whoever gives birth to useless children, what would you say of him except that...

What house, bloated with luxury, ever became prosperous without a woman's excellence?

What house, bloated with luxury, ever became prosperous without a woman's excellence?

Old age and the passage of time teach all things.

Old age and the passage of time teach all things.