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Saturday, 19 July 2008
Daily Quote:
"In many walks of life, a conscience is a more expensive encumbrance than a wife or a carriage." (Quincey, Thomas De - Conscience)

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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.
Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.
The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.
Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.
As for old age, embrace and love it. It abounds with pleasure if you know how to use it. The gradually declining years are among the sweetest in a man's life, and I maintain that, even when they have reached the extreme limit, they have their pleasure still.
There is nothing more despicable than an old man who has no other proof than his age to offer of his having lived long in the world.
Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.
It is the constant fault and inseparable evil quality of ambition, that it never looks behind it.
Those who boast of their decent, brag on what they owe to others.
No one is better born than another, unless they are born with better abilities and a more amiable disposition.
He who boasts of his descent, praises the deed of another.
Anger: an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.
The greatest remedy for anger is delay.
The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.
Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.
Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes.
The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.
There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.
There are no greater wretches in the world than many of those whom people in general take to be happy.
It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.
All art is an imitation of nature.
We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca | Ask
It's the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
Calamity is virtue's opportunity.
A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two.
Happy the man who can endure the highest and the lowest fortune. He, who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity, has deprived misfortune of its power.
Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insinuating and insidious something that elicits secrets just like love or liquor.
He that does good to another does good also to himself.
Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.
Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.
The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. It is more powerful than external circumstances.
There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.
He has committed the crime who profits by it.
One crime has to be concealed by another.
Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.
A punishment to some, to some a gift, and to many a favor.
Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all.
The final hour when we cease to exist does not itself bring death; it merely of itself completes the death-process. We reach death at that moment, but we have been a long time on the way.
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may mot be subdued by discipline.
Disease is not of the body but of the place.
Economy is too late when you are at the bottom of your purse.
Sovereignty over any foreign land is insecure.
No evil is without its compensation. The less money, the less trouble; the less favor, the less envy. Even in those cases which put us out of wits, it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss that troubles us.
The road to learning by precept is long, but by example short and effective.
It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
Even if it is to be, what end do you serve by running to distress?
Do everything as in the eye of another.
If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.
Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.
Fate rules the affairs of men, with no recognizable order.
The fates lead the willing, and drag the unwilling.
Where the fear is, happiness is not.
A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.
We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.
A foolishness is inflicted with a hatred of itself.
He who is brave is free.
Freedom is not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance; it means compelling Fortune to enter the lists on equal terms.
Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.
Those that are a friend to themselves are sure to be a friend to all.
It is the superfluous things for which men sweat.
A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
There is no delight in owning anything unshared.
We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.
The pleasures of the palate deal with us like the Egyptian thieves, who strangle those whom they embrace.
If a man does not know what port he is steering for, no wind is favorable to him.
If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind.
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
Nothing is void of God, his work is everywhere his full of himself.
-- Seneca | God
There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.
See how many are better off than you are, but consider how many are worse.
It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.