“When one has lost a friend one’s eyes should be neither dry nor streaming. Tears, yes, there should be, but not lamentation.”
“You can only acquire it successfully if you cease to feel any sense of shame.”
“You cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time.”
”You have to persevere and fortify your pertinacity until the will to good becomes a disposition to good.”
“You want to live-but do you know how to live? You are scared of dying-and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different from being dead?”
“Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.”
”Every journey has an end.”
“Everything hangs on one’s thinking.”
“For men in a state of freedom had thatch for their shelter, while slavery dwells beneath marble and gold.”
“How can a thing possibly govern others when it cannot be governed itself?”
“How much better to pursue a straight course and eventually reach that destination where the things that are pleasant are the things that are honorable finally become, for you, the same”
“I am telling you to be a slow-speaking person.”
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