He who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition, youth and age are equally a burden.
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Perfect wisdom has four parts; Wisdom, the principle of doing things right. Justice, the principle of doing things equally in public and private. Fortitude, the principle of not fleeing danger, but meeting it. Temperance, the principle of subduing desires and living moderately.
Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood, let alone believed, by the masses.
Let us affirm what seems to be the truth, that, whether one is or is not, one and the others in relation to themselves and one another, all of them, in every way, are and are not, and appear to be and appear not to be.
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
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I remember my youth and the feeling that I could last forever, outlast the sea, the earth and all men.
Age is not better, hardly so well, qualified for an instructor as youth, for it has not profited so much as it has lost.
Age in a virtuous person, of either sex, carries in it an authority which makes it preferable to all the pleasures of youth.
Towering in the confidence of twenty-one.
Vigor is found in the man who has not yet grown old, and discretion in the man who is not too young.
I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had.
Lord save us all from old age and broken health and a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.
Old age is no place for sissies.
These are the arks, the trophies, I erect, That fortify thy name against old age.
The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.
Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.
Do you feel gloomy? Lift your eyes. Stand on your feet. Say a few words of appreciation and love to the lord. Be positive.
Be like the flower, turn your face to the sun.
Never complain of that of which it is at all times in your power to rid yourself.
Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and oftentimes we call a man cold, when he is only sad.
Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.
Happiness consists more in the small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.
To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts prosecution.
Nowadays the world is becoming increasingly materialistic, and mankind is reaching toward the very zenith of external progress, driven by an insatiable desire for power and vast possessions. Yet by this vain striving for perfection in a world where everything is relative, they wander even further away from inward peace and happiness of the mind.
It’s better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone.
A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
