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The ostentation of grief is many times more than the grief itself.

A false and a childish sorrow is appeased with as false and as childish a revenge.

There is nothing that we can properly call our own but our time, and yet every body fools us out of it that has a mind to it.

Beside, that the ills which he fears he may suffer, he suffers in the very fear of them.

Where the mind is tinctured with philosophy, there is no place for grief, anxiety, or superfluous vexations.

A good conscience fears no witnesses, but a guilty conscience is solicitous even of solitude.

if you see that anything is within man's power, and part of his proper work, conclude that you also may attain to it

Make trial how the life of a good man succeeds with you, the life of one who is content with the lot appointed him by Providence

Spend, then, the fleeting remnant of your time in a spirit that accords with Nature, and depart contentedly.

Acquire a method of perceiving how all things change into one another.

Am I equipped for nothing but to lie among the bed-clothes and keep warm?

In rest you go beyond these limits, and beyond what is enough; but in action you do not fill the measure, and remain well within your powers.

Fear proceeds from the same things when absent which occasion grief when present.

In that category before anything else comes old age, to which all wish to attain, and at which all grumble when attained.

The fact is that old age is respectable just as long as it asserts itself, maintains its proper rights, and is not enslaved to any one.

In the face of a true friend a man sees as it were a second self.

Surely the United States Senate is big enough to take self-criticism and self-appraisal.

He who experiments must, while doing so, divest himself of every preconception.

Overlooking partial and temporary evils as inseparable from the practical operation of all human institutions, and looking only to the general result, every patriot has reason to be satisfied.

I had, and still have, determined perseverance, but I soon found that it was in vain to occupy my mind beyond a certain time.

I do not wish them to have power over men; but over themselves

The being who patiently endures injustice, and silently bears insults, will soon become unjust, or unable to discern right from wrong.

Happiness demands a certain outcome, it is result reliant.

One thing you can depend on people being…is people.

Give others and yourself more credit. It just happened, you witnessed it, you just did it, believe it.