Learn to be pleased with everything; with wealth, so far as it makes us beneficial to others; with poverty, for not having much to care for; and with obscurity, for being unenvied.
Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.
All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own.
To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days.
Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little.
Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is adversity.
The whole life is but a point of time; let us enjoy it, therefore, while it lasts, and not spend it to no purpose.
To do an evil act is base. To do a good one without incurring danger, is common enough. But it is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds though he risks everything in doing them.
Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots. - Victor Hugo
When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age. - Victor Hugo
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