Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.
The voice is nothing but beaten air.
You must linger among a limited number of master-thinkers, and digest their works, if you would derive ideas which shall win firm hold in your mind.
Men practice war; beasts do not.
The first proof of a well-ordered mind is to be able to pause and linger within itself.
We are born to lose and to perish, to hope and to fear, to vex ourselves and others; and there is no antidote against a common calamity but virtue; for the foundation of true joy is in the conscience.