We are taught for the schoolroom, not for life.
No man can live happily who regards himself alone, who turns everything to his own advantage. Thou must live for another, if thou wishest to live for thyself.
The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
Whereas a prolonged life is not necessarily better, a prolonged death is necessarily worse.
He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
Fidelity bought with money is overcome by money.