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A little self-praise will rob you of much applause.
~ In A Pocket Mirror For Heroes
How well a bee chooses, how badly a fly! In the same garden one sips on nectar, the other on dung.
~ In A Pocket Mirror For Heroes
Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose.
~ in The Art of Worldly Wisdom
O Fate, O Heaven, O Fortune! I could almost believe I am something when you persecute me so greatly.
~ In A Pocket Mirror For Heroes
One lie will destroy a whole reputation for integrity.
~ in The Art of Worldly Wisdom
People fee a strange inclination toward what is forbidden. Prohibit something and they will die to get it. To make them look for something, you need only proscribe it. The greatest ugliness, when forbidden, is coveted more than the greatest beauty. Prohibit fasting and even Epicurus, even Heliogabalus will allow themselves to die of hunger, and if modesty were forbidden, Venus would leave Cyprus and join the vestal virgins.
~ In A Pocket Mirror For Heroes
See one lion and you’ve seen them all; one sheep, all sheep. But see one person and you’ve seen only one, and not even that one completely.
~ In A Pocket Mirror For Heroes
Silence heals foolishness.
~ In A Pocket Mirror For Heroes
Some people excel at quick thinking, others at quick doing. The former please, the latter astonish.
~ In A Pocket Mirror For Heroes
The great reader of a great book said that he had found only one defect: it was neither so brief that he could memorize it, nor so long that he would never finish it.
~ In A Pocket Mirror For Heroes
There are four ways to know much: live for many years; travel through many lands; read many good books (which is easiest); and converse with wise friends (which is most enjoyable).
~ In A Pocket Mirror For Heroes
What beauty is for the eyes and harmony is for the ears, wit is for the intellect.
~ In A Pocket Mirror For Heroes
When you tackle something with authority, whether in conversation or in reasoning, you win respect from the very outset. If you enter fearfully, you rush to condemn yourself even before others do.
~ In A Pocket Mirror For Heroes
To know things but not practice them is to be not a philosopher but a grammarian.
~ In A Pocket Mirror For Heroes
The wise measure out their lives as though they had both a short and a long time to live.
~ In A Pocket Mirror For Heroes
Philosophy itself is nothing but a meditation upon death: we must think about it often to do it well but once.
~ In A Pocket Mirror For Heroes
A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.
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