Prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.
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In all negotiations of difficulty, a man may not look to sow and reap at once; but must prepare business, and so ripen it by degrees.
There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic. A man’s own observation, what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of, is the best physic to preserve health.
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The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.
Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.
I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.
Man can learn nothing unless he proceeds from the known to the unknown.
Wonder is the mother of all science.
When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.
If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owning more to patient attention, than to any other talent.
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
The poets and philosophers before me discovered the unconscious; what I discovered was the scientific method by which the unconscious can be studied.
The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.
Humility is a virtue all preach, none practice; and yet everybody is content to hear.
There is virtue in work and there is virtue in rest. Use both and overlook neither.
Moral virtue is the child of habit.
Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.
Love means to love that which is unloveable. Otherwise it is no virtue at all.
If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh unless, since their chief purpose is to make us bear with patience the injustice of our fellows.
We ought not to let either our joy at their faults or our grief at their success be idle, but in either case we ought to reflect, how we may become better than them by avoiding their errors, and by imitating their virtues not come short of them.
Age in a virtuous person, of either sex, carries in it an authority which makes it preferable to all the pleasures of youth.