A man, who suffers before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes
Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that hath received it disclose it.
I truly enjoy no more of the world’s good things than what I willingly distribute to the needy.
Calamity is virtue’s opportunity.
We are members of one great body planted by nature in a mutual love, and fitted for a social life. We must consider that we were born for the good of the whole.
However degraded or wretched a fellow mortal may be, he is still a member of our common species.
Retirement without the love of letters is a living burial.
This body is not a home but an inn, and that only briefly.
He who blushes at riding in a rattletrap, will boast when he rides in style.
The hour which gives us life begins to take it away.
